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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.

A Sea of (dis-)Connectivity?
A Charlatan in Bukhara
The Mysterious “Black Lord” of East Turkestani Rain Prayers
Meeting Abduqahhor G’afforov, alias Shoshiy
Can the Anthropology of Islam be Post-Secular?
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM | MUDDYING THE WATERS: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE CASPIAN SEA
Keynote Lecture | RELIGION AND COMMUNISM: WHAT THE FUTURE COULD HOLD by Prof. Eren Tasar
Workshop | SECULARISM AND RELIGION IN THE USSR
SUMMER SCHOOL: The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries)
Muslim Religious Authority in Central Eurasia