Background
| Juma Namangani (born Jumaboi Khojayev) |
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| Born | 1969 Namangan, Uzbekistan |
| Died | 2001 Killed in action, Afghanistan |
| Occupation | Soviet paratrooper during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Field commander in the Tajik civil war. Co-founder of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Killed by US-led coalition air strikes in Afghanistan, 2001. |
| Tohir Yo‘ldosh (born Takhir Yuldashev) |
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| Born | 1967 Uzbekistan |
| Died | 2009 Killed in action, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Islamic ideologue and insurgent leader. Co-founder of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Killed by airstrike from US Predator Drone in South Waziristan on August 27, 2009. |
During the Soviet era, Islam in Central Asia was officially suppressed – mosques were closed, and all contact with the wider Muslim world was severed. This isolation ended with the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989), when thousands of conscripts from Soviet Central Asia were sent to fight the Afghan mujahedin. Many of these conscripts returned home impressed by the Islamic zeal of their opponents, and newly aware of the religious, cultural and linguistic characteristics they shared with their neighbours in the South – and which distinguished them from their rulers in Moscow.
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