What kind of Muslims were there in Central Asia before the Soviet Union? Were they integrated into the Muslim world or were they on the fringes of the main events? How much did they contribute to Muslim heritage? How difficult was it for Soviet houses of culture to influence Central Asian Muslims? This article attempts to explore these questions and aspects of Central Asian history. I begin by very briefly reviewing the history of Islamic expansion in Central Asia. In my opinion the expansion can be separated into two periods, the pre-Abbasid period and the Abbasid and post-Abbasid period. The pre-Abbasid period is the period before the expansion of the Abbasid empire into Asia and can be characterized by fluctuations. Fluctuation in terms of lands into which Muslims had expanded; many times Muslims will defeat an army, the defeated armies regroup by attacking Muslims and so on. The post-Abbasid empire period is characterized by stability and fruitfulness; the period after which unrest had settled in the area and the people and land had a chance to prosper under the rule of Islam. And while the beginnings of these effects begin first in the Umayyad Empire, the full results of Islam's rule over Central Asia can be seen most clearly during the Abbasid era. The expansion into Central Asia begins as early as the year 637 during the time of the Muslim Caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab. At that time, the Muslim army leader Al-Ahnaf Ibn Qays (1) in the battles with the Persian Empire had repelled the last king of the Sassanid Empire Yazdegerd III to the Amu River near Balkh in the Battle of the Oxus River ( 4). The Amu River is located in today's Turkmenistan and also in the western part of Central Asia. The expanses......middle of paper......guests in Central Asia. London: The Royal Asiatic Society.7- Mahmoud, A. M. (1972). Al-Islam fe Aasya Al-Wustaa, bayna al-fathayn al-arabi wa al-turki [Islam in Central Asia, between the Arab and Turkish conquests]. Cairo, Egypt: Al-Hay'a Al-Masriyya Al-A'ama Lil-Kitaab8- Bai, Shouyi. (2002). a general description of the history of China (Vol2). Beijing: Foreign Language Press9- Ibn Battuta. (2002). the travels of Ibn Battuta. UK: Picador.10- Al-Nawawi, Y. (2004). Sharḥ al-Nawawī ʻalá Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim [Al-Nawawi's Explanation on Saheeh Muslim]. Saudi Arabia: Al-Rushd Library11- Kamal, A. A. (2006). Al-Jumhuriyat Al-Islamiyya Bi-Asya Al-Wusta [The Islamic Republics of Central Asia]. Cairo, Egypt: Daru Al-Salam12- İğmen A. (2012). Speaking Soviet with an accent: Culture and power in Kyrgyzstan. “Central Asia in Context Series,” Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press