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The Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia sets for itself the task of exploring the social, intellectual, and political history of the Muslim communities inhabiting the land mass covering the Volga-Ural region, the North Caucasus, Siberia, the Kazakh Steppe, Central Asia, and Crimea from the fall of the Khanate of Kazan (1552) to the present.

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SUMMER SCHOOL: The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries)
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: An Empire of Petitions: How Muslims Appealed to the Russian State
Portrait of a Soviet Islamicist
Stepping Stones: Towards a History of Russian Colonialism

Blog

On the Curious Term Damulla
Escaping from Islam, or Story of Jumaqul
Extractivist, Exclusionary, and Exploitative? Toward a History of International Scholarly Cooperation in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies before the Annus Horribilis
A greyscale photo of two men in a rural countryside
Mystics and Gangsters: The 1963 Makhachkala Court Shooting