11 December 2004
Officials want to clamp down on mosques that feed militant Islam, but mullahs say they are being unjustly targeted. Clerics... Read more
Topic: Islamism
15 May 2004
A leading expert on political Islam contends the Bush administration is undermining its own democratization efforts in the Middle East... Read more
09 June 2003
Detention and trials of suspected extremists have become routine in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. But Dushanbe and Tashkent still maintain different... Read more
26 December 2002
As the war goes on, fundamentalist Islamists in Chechnya are becoming bolder and more violent.
Even for a society used to... Read more
02 September 2002
A banned Islamic group is growing in strength in southern Kyrgyzstan as a result of the increasing recruitment of women... Read more
26 May 2002
In the wake of a visit between 15 and 20 May to the Uzbek city of Bukhara (500 kilometres or... Read more
26 January 2002
Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi is professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study... Read more