The Resurgence Of Islam In A Post-Soviet Azerbaijan After Azerbaijan recovered its independence in 1991, its people turned to Islam, which had always been an important identity marker, to fill the ideological vacuum that followed the breakdown of the Soviet system, a process that was profoundly affected by the agendas and actions of neighboring Muslim countries like Iran which promoted radical Shiism, Turkey with its Sunni Orthodoxy and the Gulf states which aimed to further various Wahhabi / Salafi doctrines...