Among the political prisoners of Azerbaijan, religious believers have for a long time been the majority. According to the latest...
12 July / BRI Religious Studies Team
Among the political prisoners of Azerbaijan, religious believers have for a long time been the majority. According to the latest...
12 July / BRI Religious Studies Team
Altay Goyushov and Kanan Rovshanoglu In recent years, Shiite religious groups have become important players in socio-political life in...
In an opinion concerning the recent radicalization of Muslims and the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and the...
9 February / Ilkin Huseynli
There has been much hype surrounding the alleged “radicalization” of Moslems, both across the post-Soviet space and globally. In recent...
7 February / Murad Ismayilov
In August 2014 the government of Azerbaijan took, at first sight, a seemingly strange initiative − it outlawed serving any...
24 August / Turkhan Sadigov
By Altay Goyushov and Kanan Rovshanoglu Introduction According to the “Oxford Islamic Studies Online”, Salafism was a reformist, modernist,...
After the collapse of communist ideologies and regimes, a serious transformation of the values of society have taken place in...
7 June / Nijat Mammadli
Pilgrimage to the Kaaba, which is located in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, is considered as one of the...
25 April / Kanan Rovshanoglu
Local Shi'ism existed in the southern regions of the Azerbaijani republic, and particularly as concerns the subject of this article,...
24 April / Araz Baghirov
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