The Sunni branch of Islam has a 1 200-year-old tradition among the sedentary population of Central Asia including theSanjeev Chimmalgi Agra gharana All India Radio Bhimsen Joshi Carnatic Computer-aided design Dharwad Gwalior gharana Hindustani classical music Indian Classical music Indore /In any case Tajiks have disproved the standard Soviet assertion that the urbanized industrial labor force and the educated population had little to do with a remnant of a bygone era such as Islam A noteworthy development in the late Soviet and early independence eras was increased interest especially among young people in the substance of Islamic doctrine In the post-Soviet era Islam became an important element in the nationalist arguments of certain Tajik intellectuals
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