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Islam after communism : religion and politics in Central Asia

Khalid, Adeeb, 1964-

Overview

Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history in this sophisticated analysis of the ways that Muslim societies in Central Asia have been transformed by the Soviet presence in the region. Arguing that the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world featured a sustained assault on Islam that 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 period. He shows how this legacy endures today and how, for the vast majority of the population, a return to Islam means the recovery of traditions destroyed under Communism.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Islam Asia, Central. / Islamic renewal Asia, Central. / Islam and politics Asia, Central. / Religion and politics Asia, Central. / Islam. / Religionspolitik. / Postkommunismus. / Asia, Central Politics and government. / Zentralasien.
• ISBN: 9780520282155, 0520282159

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
BP63.A34 K535 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE