RAS Institute of African Studies releases a book on radical Islamic movements in Caucasus

Authors of the second part of the multivolume monograph "Radical Islamist movements on the political map of the modern world" have explored the specifics of Muslim radicalization in Northern and Southern Caucasus.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in May 2015, the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) held a presentation of the first issue of the monograph "Islamic radical movements on the political map of the modern world" dedicated to North and North-East Africa. The second volume of the project is dedicated to the Caucasus.

According to Anatoly Savateev, PhD in Historical Sciences, one of the authors of the monograph, a researcher from the Centre for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the RAS Institute of African Studies, Islam gave a new meaning of life to residents of the former USSR.

Anatoly Savateev believes that the revival of Islam is connected with the Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran and with the war in Afghanistan.

The events of the "Arab spring" a wave of protests and uprisings that took place in the Middle East in 2010-2011 became an additional stimulus for the preparation of the publication. This was clarified by Enver Kisriev, a manager of the multivolume monograph project, the chief of the Caucasian sector at the Centre for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the RAS Institute of African Studies, an expert on ethno-cultural and social- political problems of modern Dagestan.

According to Naima Neflyasheva, one of the authors of the monograph, a senior researcher at the Centre for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the RAS Institute of African Studies, an author of the blog "North Caucasus Through the Centuries" at the "Caucasian Knot", the radicalization of young people is influenced by a number of factors, "starting from non-working 'social lifts', clan society and ending with poor education."

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.