Review of the Monograph by D. Motadel “Islam in the Politics of Nazi Germany (1939–1945)”
Journal: Islamovedenie
Year: 2022

The reviewer analyzes the monograph by David Motadel “Islam in the Politics of Nazi Ger-many (1939–1945)” published in German in 2014 and subsequently, on the wave of popularity, re-printed in Turkish (2015), German (2017, 2018), French, Persian (2019), Spanish and Italian (2020) and in Russian in 2020. The review focuses specifically on the fourth chapter, “Islam and the War on the Eastern Front”, since it is in this part of the book that the policy of the Nazis towards Soviet Muslims is descri