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List of Figures; Glossary; Note on Transliteration, Place Names and Calendars; Additional Signs Used; Introduction; Part I Islam, Islamic Authority and Leadership before and during the Russian Rule; Chapter One Authority and Leadership in Islam: A Historical and Comparative Perspective; Chapter Two Islamic Leadership among Tatars and Other Turkic Peoples prior to and during Russian Rule; Chapter Three Islam and Islamic Leadership in the Caucasus; Chapter Four Islam, Islamic Authority and Leadership in Central Asia; Part II Islamic Authority and Leadership in the USSR; Chapter Five The Volga-Urals; Chapter Six The North Caucasus; Chapter Seven The South Caucasus; Chapter Eight Central Asia and Kazakhstan; Part III Islamic Authority and Leadership in Post-Soviet Lands; Chapter Nine Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania; Chapter Ten European Russia; Chapter Eleven The Caucasus; Chapter Twelve Central Asia; Chapter Thirteen Eurasian Islamic Leadership within the Global Context; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

The book presents the first integrated study of the relationship between official Islamic leadership (muftiship), non-official Islamic authorities, grassroots Muslim communities and the state in post-Communist Eurasia, encompassing Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, the Volga-Urals, Crimea, the North Caucasus, Azerbaijan and ex-Soviet Central Asia. It employs a history-based perspective and compares this relationship to that in both the Middle East and Western Europe. It argues that the nature and role of official Islamic leadership, as well as state-Muslim relations in most of the post-Soviet lands, have largely retained their particular national and broader Eurasian character, which distinguishes them from what prevails in the Middle East and Western Europe. At the same time, the increasing political Europeanisation of Lithuania and Ukraine since 2014 and, to some extent, Belarus, has accounted for their divergence towards the Western model of state-Muslim relations.