CONTENTS. No 1 (13), winter, 2005

Special release.

«Islam, identity and politics in the post-Soviet space»

Materials of the international scientific-practical conference «Islam, identity and politics in the post-Soviet space: comparative analysis of Central Asia and European part of Russia»
on April, 1-2, 2004, Kazan

• Rafik Mukhametshin. The foreword
• Marlene Laruelle, Sebastien Peyrouse. Introduction. Global processes of transformation of identity and religiousness: the post-Soviet islam

I. Post-Soviet Islam: ideological and theological aspects of comprehension

• Rafael Khakimov. Critical thinking and updating of the Islam
• Valiulla Yakupov. The role of traditional Islam in religious renascence
• Sergey Gradirovsky. Russian Islam as a cultural frontier
• Rafik Mukhametshin. In searches of religious identity

II. Religion as a factor of national construction

• Jean Radvanyi. Indefinite answers to undetermined questions: Muslims in Russia and the census of 2002
• Sanat Kushkumbaev. Islam in Kazakhstan and ethnic identity
• Eduard Ponarin, Liliya Sagitova. National construction and Islam: Kurds in Turkey and Volga Tatars
• Rinat Nabiev. Inter-religious tolerance in the system of identity of Russian Muslims of the Volga region
• Xavier Le Torrivellec. Identity and religion in materials of the Russian population census of 2002 in Republic of Bashkortostan

III. Religion and politics: paradoxical realities

• Sebastien Peyrouse. Re-formation of religious spectrum in Central Asia: alliance between Islam and Orthodoxy
• Marlene Laruelle. Affiliation to Islam as political criteria. Politization of Religious Boards and establishing of Muslim parties in Russia
• Martha Brill Olcott, Bakhtiar Babadzhanov. Secularization and a political islam in the Central Asia
• Aydar Khabutdinov. Islam in Tatarstan on a threshold of a new millenium: tendencies and variants
• Adylzhan Kariev. Fergana valley in 70-80th years of XX century: economic aspects of appearance of islamic movement

IV. Reunderstanding of religious traditions: current situation and perspectives

• Sergey Abashin. «National» sufism in modern Central Asia
• Ashirbek Muminov. Shami-Damulla and his role in the forming of «Soviet islam»
• Nurlan Alniyazov. Factors influencing development of a Muslim community in Kazakhstan