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Are you hooked on the history of Central Eurasia? Do you want to know more about Muslims under Tsarist and Communist rule? Would you like to share with us the stories behind your research and reflect on your fieldwork or teaching experience? Then this is the place for you! In this blog we’ll uncover the galaxy of voices from Central Eurasian archives, raise awareness about the significance of Muslim communities in Russian, Soviet and Chinese history, and bring the study of Islam in the successor countries to the USSR and in the PRC into conversation with global history.

Central Asia Melons in Hungary?
Saints or Swindlers?
Making the Museum Muslim
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
How the Crimean Tatar Chancellery Handled Diplomatic Correspondence: Sefer Shah Agha’s Mission to Poland–Lithuania in 1714
Deforestation and Indigenous Religion in Eastern Russia
Falling through the Cracks of Empire: The Plight of Ḥābbī Khwājā Niyāzov