The rebirth of Islam in Russia.

The Middle EastNbr. 2002, July 2002

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The rebirth of Islam in Russia.

"Our faith lives in our blood and in our bones ... One can strip a man of his clothes but not of a faith practised for over 1,000 years," says Gousman Iskhakov, the mufti of Tatarstan.

After living for three generations under the Soviet regime, where practising any religion was actively discouraged by the ruling regime, and much theological knowledge was lost, today, with the new freedoms in place, "many people are again taking an interest in Islam," the mufti confirmed.

This rebirth of Islam is obvious in Tatarstan, an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, where half the populat...

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