Islamic Activism in Azerbaijan : Repression and Mobilization in a Post-Soviet Context

Post-Soviet Azerbaijan is often portrayed as a very secular country. Thus the mobilization of mosque communities in the late 1990s and their conflictual relationship with the authorities came as a surprise. The main aim of the dissertation is to shed light on this mobilization, focusing on the Sunni...

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Main Author: Bedford, Sofie
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen 2009
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8429
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