Consequently, the breakdown for most of the movement of migrants is drawn from Pew Research Center's Global Religion and Migration Database source estimating the breakdown of migrant populations based on global census and survey information. ..…

In more than half of the countries (28), government officials cited security concerns as the rationale for banning the group[s]. ... The government of Tajikistan, for example, banned religious groups that it considered “extremist” organizations, including the Islamist movement known as..…

The two hundred and forty mosques and one hundred and thirteen madrasahs of medieval Bukhara produced scholars who spread their faith throughout Russia, China, South Asia, and the Middle East. . Russia captured much of modern-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan in the late..…