Informal Islamic education in Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union

• Main Author: Akhmetova, Elmira
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: BP173.65 Islam and religious liberty; JF491 Legislation. Legislative process. Law-making; LB Theory and practice of education; LB2361 Curriculum; LF Individual institutions (Europe)
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/58443/5/BOSNIA%20PP%202017.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/58443/11/58443_tentative.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/58443/; http://cns.ba/vijesti/call-for-papers-rethinking-islamic-education-in-europe/

This paper aims at reviewing informal Islamic education among Russia’s Muslims since the fall of the Communist regime in 1991. The decade of absolute religious freedom enabled various types of Islamic ideas and guides to flow into the country, as its Muslim population was thirsty for any type of kno...