Islam after Communism : religion and politics in Central Asia

Khalid, Adeeb 1964- (author.).

Summary: How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these questions. Arguing that the sustained Soviet assault on Islam destroyed patterns of Islamic learning and thoroughly de-Islamized public life, Khalid demonstrates that Islam became synonymous with tradition and was subordinated to powerful ethnonational identities that crystallized during the Soviet p.

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ISBN: 9781306402750
ISBN: 1306402751
ISBN: 0520282159
ISBN: 9780520282155
ISBN: 0520957865
ISBN: 9780520957862
ISBN: 1461957184
ISBN: 9781461957188
Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)
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Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.

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General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.17
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Contents; List of Maps and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Islam in Central Asia; 2. Empire and the Challenge of Modernity; 3. The Soviet Assault on Islam; 4. Islam as National Heritage; 5. The Revival of Islam; 6. Islam in Opposition; 7. The Politics of Antiterrorism; Conclusion: Andijan and Beyond; Afterword; Glossary; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.
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Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.