Islam, society and politics in Central Asia / edited by Pauline Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Pauline (Professor of political science), editor.

Series:

Central Eurasia in context

Central Eurasia in context series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Asia, Central.

Islam.

Central Asia.

Muslims--Asia, Central.

Muslims.

Islam and politics--Asia, Central.

Islam and politics.

Physical Description:

xvii, 366 pages ; 23cm.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]

Contents:

Introduction: Reassessing the "Islamic Revival" in Central Asia / Pauline Jones

The social significance of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia: the case of Kyrgyzstan / Rouslan Jalil

Beyond piety: self-related Muslims in Uzbekistan / Svetlana Peshkova

Radical Islam from below: The Mujaddidiya and Hizb-ut-Tahrir in the Ferghana Valley / Vera Exnerova

Engineering Islam: Uzbek state policies of control / David Abramson and Noah Tucker

Subversives and saints: Sufism and the state in Central Asia / Emily O'Dell

Unregistered: gray spaces in the Soviet regulation of Islam / Eren Murat Tasar

The ascendance of orthodoxy: nation building and religious pluralism in Central Asia / Noor O'Neill Borbieva

Islam, religious elites, and the state in post-Civil War Tajikistan / Tim Epkenhans

When religion resorts to violence explaining variation in religious-based mobilization in Kyrgyzstan / Alisher Khamidov

The localization of the Transnational Tablighi Jama'at Network in Kyrgyzstan / Mukaram Toktogulova

Transnational Islamic banks and local markets in Central Asia / Aisalkyn Botoeva

Studying Islam abroad: pious enterprises and educational aspirations of young Tajik Muslims / Manja Stephan-Emmrich

Central Asia as part of the Islamic core / Pauline Jones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822964278

0822964279

OCLC:

980858444