« Islam in Tajikistan: Tradition and Modernity ». Religion, State & Society, 26/1 (1998), pp. 39-50.

This brief survey, remarkably enough, does not follow current trends to track down ‘the Islamic threat’, instead of that drawing almost an opposite picture of a continuous local Islamic tradition, which hardly would allow radical Islamic movements to get a firm footing in Tajikistan. This look at continuities reveals noteworthy phenomena. Not least because of the influence of ‘Naqšbandîya Islam’ mediating between dogmatic prescriptions and pre-Islamic beliefs and customs, the author detects t..