Jihad (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ahmed Rashid
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Current affairs, history, and religion
- Time of Work: 1991-2002
- Setting: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan
- Principal Characters: Nursultan Nazarbayev, Askar Akayev, Saparmurad Niyazov, Islam Karimov, Rakhmon Nabiev, Emomali Rahmonov, Juma Namangani, Sayed Abdullah Nuri
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Current affairs, History, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: Politics, Twentieth century, Islam, Twenty-first century, Religion, Asia or Asians, Ethnic groups, War, Economics, Minorities, Muslims, Terrorism or terrorists, 1990’s, Russia or Russian people, Great Britain, Oil wells or oil-well drilling, Fanaticism, Fundamentalism, Hatred, 2000’s
- Locales: Kazakhstan
Central Asia has been a political backwater since the end of the “Great Game” between Russia and Great Britain for domination of the Eurasian heartland. It was always an ethnically complex region, but Soviet efforts to divide and rule, combined with suppression of religious expression and free thought, winking at corruption and environmental devastation, left the nations of this huge mountainous and desert region with almost insuperable challenges when the Soviet Union suddenly collapsed in 1991.
Although Central Asians were traditionally tolerant Sunni Muslims who took pride...
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