Ata Zholy: Crackdown on a Kazakh Islamic Religious Movement in Russia
Falsely qualified as “pagan” by anti-cultists, the group was born from popular Islam and mediums who claimed to…
Gulag Miracles: Sufis and Stalinist Repression in Kazakhstan
At some point in 1943, Allen J. Frank relates (pp. 103–4, 127), in the latest of his fascinating…
Models and Money Laundering: Famed Jeweler Fawaz Gruosi’s partnership with Isabel Dos Santos, the “Princess of Africa”
New York, Brussels (8/1 – 29). From the red carpets of Hollywood to the Cannes film festival, Fawaz…
Of poet, passage and Persian—How Kashmir influenced Central Asia
A cohort of connoisseurs met in Srinagar’s iconic Amar Singh Club on the cold morning of November 13,…