Gulag Miracles: Sufis and Stalinist Repression in Kazakhstan

Allen Frank earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University. He is an independent scholar who has published extensively on the Islamic history of Russia and Central Asia. His major publications include Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia (Brill, 2001), Qurban-‘Ali Khalidi, An Islamic Biographical Dictionary of the Eastern Kazakh Steppe (co-editor) (Brill, 2005), Bukhara and the Muslims of Russia (Brill, 2012), and Saduaqas Ghïlmani, Biographies of Islamic Scholars of Our Times (co-editor) (IRCICA, 2018).

This talk is presented by the Central Asia Working Group with support from the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies; Center for Global Initiatives; and History Department. Please email Dr. Eren Tasar with any questions about the event.