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In Kazakhstan, a majority of the Muslims are Sunni of the Hanafi school of Fiqh.
Islam is one kind everywhere and also in Kazakhstan. There are different Islam schools as Sunnis and and Shiites but all are Muslims and belonging to same kind of Islam. Majority of Muslims in Kazakhstan follow the Sunni school.
The Caucasus & Central Asian republics
Yes.
For the same reasons any other group, religion or tribe kill.
Yes, Islam is a recognized religion practiced publicly in Russia. 6.5% of Russians are Muslims. The largest concentrations of Russian Muslims are in the Caucasus Region. Notable Russian Ethnicities that are overwhelmingly Muslim include: Adyghe, Balkars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Kabardin, Karachay, Tatars, and numerous Dagestani peoples. The predominantly-Muslim Soviet Republics of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan broke away from former USSR in 1991.
Dilip M. Menon has written: 'Becoming \\' -- subject- s -: Hindus, Muslims, Ethnic relations, Communalism, Ethnicity 'Caste, nationalism, and communism in South India' -- subject- s -: Politics and government, Communism, Nationalism, Caste
The Greek invention that aided navel travel and that was improved upon by the Muslims was Greek fire.
The religious composition of the Transcaucasia Republics varies: Armenia is predominantly Christian (majority Apostolic Orthodox), Georgia has a mix of Christian denominations (majority Orthodox), and Azerbaijan is predominantly Muslim (majority Shia). This diversity reflects historical, cultural, and political influences on each country.
Kazakhstan is not at war, nor is it in a state of peace, as it is a Muslim country they hate each other, but the main problem is oil. There is a province near China with oil, and China is investing in that area and sending thousands of Chinese to live there, they are also renting land to grow food, as are the countries in the Middle East as they have oil but no water. This province is upset about this and wants independence. Here is a simple equation Muslims = trouble.
Islam, is the dominant religion in fact of all the Central Asian countries. These are Turkic countries, and Turkic people are Muslims. In former Soviet states like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, there are Eastern Orthodox people because of the minority Russian populations there left from the Soviet era.
Most of the citizens of Central Asia are Muslims, but there are some Christian and Buddhist minorities. However, in the former Soviet States, Islam remains strongly repressed by the state as a legacy of Soviet Communism.