... at the Taliban’s approach toward the international community and the resulting limited pathways for constructive engagement. jackson@armedgroupscentre.org f.weigand@lse.ac.uk © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023 Afghanistan Taliban governance religion Islam...

...Pralay Kanungo India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party is pursuing a campaign to revise history and remove historic Islamic monuments from cities like Varanasi, known for its multicultural fabric. p.r.kanungo@hum.leidenuniv.nl © 2023 by The Regents of the University of California 2023...

... to what various right-wing Hindu groups collectively described as the “Love Jihad,” a conspiracy theory that Muslim men were plotting to seduce Hindu women with the purpose of converting them to Islam. Interreligious marriages were openly criminalized by the Uttar Pradesh state government, especially...

... already granted such rights within their empire two decades earlier.) Muslims in Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, and Bulgaria, as well as Austro-Hungarian–ruled Bosnia-Herzegovina, were the beneficiaries. Greble focuses on wealthy merchants and Islamic scholars and their attempts to make a life for themselves...

... narrative celebrating that group’s pre-Islamic Phoenician origins. The rivalry has sometimes turned violent. A mid-nineteenth-century civil war that originally pitted peasant Maronites against Druze landholders was a forerunner of the late-twentieth-century civil war that also involved Muslim denominations...

... experience it. True memory is lost; that which replaces it, “heritage,” is perceived as a form of manipulation that serves to alienate the populace from “authentic” spontaneous recollection. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Oman heritage history nation-building Islam...

... Kyrgyzstan Islam Central Asia still seems obscure to most outsiders, thirty years after the region’s Soviet-created republics (Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan) became independent nation-states in 1991. The region has received international attention primarily when...

... them. This tradition is not a muddled synthesis of Islam and Hinduism; it is rooted in the history of settlement in the region. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 Bangladesh India religion Islam Hinduism environment climate change As Bangladesh took steps...

...Rachel Harris [T]he entire Uighur population is now regarded as a problem in need of an aggressive solution. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California China Xinjiang authoritarianism Islam Uighurs Central Asia cul 276 [T]he...

...Alima Bissenova Despite all of its symbolic continuity, Kazakhstan is a society in transition. © 2019 Current History. All rights reserved. 2019 The Regents of the University of California Kazakhstan urbanization globalization migration oil Islam Nursultan Nazarbayev 271 Despite...

... by a sharpening of discourse around issues of national identity, and particularly the place of Islam in Ger- many. Despite this, the country is still dedicated to the successful integration of immigrants and refugees. This is clear from the maintenance and expansion of existing policies as well as continu- ing...

... Shavkat Mirziyoyev Islam Karimov democratic reforms Soviet Union authoritarianism Islam Central Asia labor migration 277 [L]abor migration brought the country to a point of no return: millions of the poorest Uzbeks could no longer be cut off from the rest of the world . . . Uzbekistan...

... Reformasi movement student activists Suharto Islam religion human rights populism Jakarta Basuki Tjahaja Purnama Ahok Prabowo Subianto 222 Reformasi-era values concerning citizen welfare and the public good remain deeply entrenched among a small but vocal segment of society...

... India Pakistan Myanmar South Asia religion intolerance blasphemy Narendra Modi Hindu nationalism democracy Rohingya Islam extremism Tehreek-e-Labbaik minorities PERSPECTIVE Rising Religious Intolerance in South Asia NEETI NAIR 148 South Asia has historically been known for its...

...Joshua Lustig A rising middle class in Pakistan is striving to reconcile aspirations for a modern lifestyle with a desire for a deeper embrace of Islam as a guide to everyday ethics. The New Pakistani Middle Class , by Ammara Maqsood Harvard University Press , 2017 © 2018 Current...

...Jennifer Fredette Underlying the debate on the state of emergency and terrorism are deep tensions over the place of religion in French public life. Or more specifically, the place of Islam. 101 Underlying the debate on the state of emergency and terrorism are deep tensions over the place...

... to speak for the people. Holly Case Hungary Viktor Orbán Young Democrats Poland Jarosław Kaczyński Law and Justice party Fidesz populism refugee crisis immigration Islam authoritarianism Eastern Europe illiberalism communism © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved...

...Jocelyne Cesari [The] incorporation of Islam within state institutions nationalized religious authorities and teachings, giving rise to a hegemonic version of the faith. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Jocelyne Cesari Islam...

...Sara Silvestri [T]he main religious traditions all share references to journeys and emigration experiences as metaphors for the human condition. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Sara Silvestri Islam Muslim Syria Iraq Middle...

... of the University of California Marianne Kamp Central Asia Soviet legacy women's rights Islam Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan literacy labor rights voting rights Joseph Stalin Bolsheviks unveiling campaign 270 While Soviet efforts to promote gender equality...