Bayram Balcı, Islam in Central Asia and the Caucasus Since the Fall of the Soviet Union, Londres, Hurst, 2018. https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/islam-central-asia-caucasus-since-fall-soviet-union/ With the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, a major turning point in all former Soviet republics, Central Asian and Caucasian countries began to reflect on their history and identities. As a consequence of their opening up to the global exchange of ideas, various strains of Islam and trends in Islamic thought have nourished the Islamic revival that had already started in the context of glasnost and perestroika—from Turkey, Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, and from the Indian subcontinent; the four regions with strong ties to Central Asian and Caucasian Islam in the years before Soviet occupation. Bayram Balci seeks