The updated version of this article has been published in French and English by the Bulletin de l’Observatoire international du religieux. You can read the English version titled Understanding tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh through a religious prism: a look back at the war of 2020 here.

Altay Goyushov
received his PhD in the History of Political Islam from Baku State University in 1993. He has held fellowships in Germany, Italy, France and the United States, including fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, a Fulbright Scholarship at Georgetown University, Reagan-Fascell Fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy and visiting professorships and appointments at Sapienza-Università di Roma, UCLA and Sciences Po.