Islam, territory, and contested space in post-Soviet Russia

Eurasian Geography and Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 247-271

  Walker, Edward W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bashkirs; Chechnya; Dagestan; Islam; Islamo internationalism; Islamo nationalism; Muslim minority; Tatars; Territoriality; Wahhabis

Indexed keywords

ISLAMISM; MINORITY GROUP; NATIONALISM; RELIGION;

ALANIA; BESLAN; CHECHNYA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

EID: 23844467774     PISSN: 15387216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1538-7216.46.4.247     Document Type: Article

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