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Tajikistan: Regime Bans Ismaili Home Prayers, Lessons For Children
At least two Ismaili home owners in Mountainous Badakhshan were fined one month’s average wage each for hosting…
5 unique religious sites in Kazakhstan
Many people have crossed Kazakhstan’s land over time, each bringing their culture. Their heritage is still present in…
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…