러시아ㆍ유라시아

Civilizational Analysis on Islam in Contemporary Sedentary Central Asia: Focused on Tajikistan

The Muslim Communities in Central Asian Countries is divided by the countries of sedentary civilization and nomadic civilization. And most researchs on Central Asian Muslim communities have been conducted on the Muslim of sedentary civilizational Central Asia.

In the beginning of 20th century Tajikistan and Uzbekistan shared sedentary tradition and communities. In terms of historic-ethnic process Tajikistan have been preserving tajik inheritance from ancient dynaty periods, while some part of tajik inheritances and communities have been located in the territory of modern Uzbekistan, which have been defined as modern Uzbek with the establishing of UzSSR.

After breaking up Soviet Union Tajikistan experienced civil war among various groups of different political and religion backgrounds. In this process muslim political groups of Tajikistan had allowed to participate in government and had status of Political party, while similar movements of Uzbekistan have been restricted by the Uzbekistan government. The analysis on Muslim in Tajikistan can explain the dynamics of central asian communities.