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The literature on state accommodation of Muslim religious practices has focused on the regional context of Western Europe and North America. In this project, I identify and compare state policies toward Islamic religious practices using a sample of 22 former communist Muslim republics of Eurasia. For this purpose, I construct an original dataset collected from a variety of sources. Employing the number of mosques functioning in each post-communist Muslim republic as the measure of state accommodation of religious practices I find that among all factors the level of democracy is the single most important variable in explaining variation in accommodation of Islamic religious practices. To further demonstrate significance of these results I trace the process of democratic influence on state accommodation of religious policies examining in-depth the case of Tatars both in the pre-communist Imperial and revolutionary Russia and the contemporary republic of Tatarstan.

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Of Khans and Kremlins: Tatarstan and the future of ethno-federalism in Russia, by Katherine E. Graney, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2009, 189 pp., hardcover US$70.00, ISBN 978-0739126356, paperback US$29.95, ISBN 978-0739126363

Accommodation of Islamic Religious Practices and Democracy in the Post-Communist Muslim Republics

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Of Khans and Kremlins: Tatarstan and the future of ethno-federalism in Russia, by Katherine E. Graney, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2009, 189 pp., hardcover US$70.00, ISBN 978-0739126356, paperback US$29.95, ISBN 978-0739126363

Accommodation of Islamic Religious Practices and Democracy in the Post-Communist Muslim Republics