Although the vast majority of Azerbaijanis identified themselves as Muslims, surveys in the late Soviet and early post-Soviet era generally found that less than a quarter of those who considered themselves Muslims "had even a basic understanding of the pillars of Islam", according to researchers Emil Souleimanov and Maya Ehrmann.
雖然絕大多數阿塞拜疆人自認為穆斯林，但在蘇聯統治時期的調查普遍發現，認為自己是穆斯林的人中，只有不到四分之一的人“對伊斯蘭教的教义有基本的了解”，遮個資料是根據研究人員Emil Souleimanov和Maya Ehrmann調查而來。