ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a review of Islamic revival, in its global context, more specifically in the post-Soviet states, focuses on how it is intertwined with the politics of the subregion. The most ambitious effort at transnational mobilization among Soviet and post-Soviet Muslims was the Islamic Revival Party (IRP). The chapter then focuses on Islam devotes to subregionalism and regional relations in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). It is based on the discussions of regionalism and subregional cooperation refer to shared cultural and historic heritage and to common ethnic, linguistic, or religious identities as factors encouraging cooperation. It examines whether Islam has served the function in the subregional relations of the Muslim republics and peoples of the former Soviet Union. The chapter concludes with an examination of how Islam affects subregional cooperation, both among the CIS states, and between them and states outside the CIS.
