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Aspect of the World War II period

During World War Two the Islamic World included the entire Arab World (the North African and Middle Eastern Maghreb and Mashriq regions), Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, large areas of Sub-Saharan Africa (mostly in East and West Africa), the various Muslim populated regions of the Soviet Union (including the various Tatar peoples, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingushians, and the regions of Dagestan, Azerbaijan and the Central Asian Turkic Republics, among others), the Indian subcontinent, south east Asia (Indonesia and Malaysia), areas of South Eastern Europe and the Caucasus such as the Bosnia and Kosovo regions of Yugoslavia and Albania. In addition, countries bot considered part of the Muslim World and which had very few Muslims still concerned themselves with policies related to Islam, to Islamic-majority countries/predominately Muslim ethnic groups, and tried to make use of them for their own purposes during the war.