From Fergana Valley to Syria - the Transformation of Central Asian Radical Islam

Bayram Balci (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

The radical jihadi group known as the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union. A little bit more than twenty years after it first appeared, this on-going transformation has made it less connected to Uzbekistan, and more to a global jihad.

Domains: Political science

Bayram Balci. From Fergana Valley to Syria - the Transformation of Central Asian Radical Islam. 2014. ⟨hal-03392673⟩