Being Muslim in central Asia : practices, politics, and identities / edited by Marlene Laruelle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laruelle, Marlène, editor.

Series:

Eurasian studies library ; VOLUME 9.

Eurasian studies library, 1877-9484 ; VOLUME 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--Asia, Central.

Muslims.

Central Asia.

Islam--Asia, Central.

Islam.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

This volume explores the changing place of Islam in contemporary Central Asia, understanding religion as a ?societal shaper? ? a roadmap for navigating quickly evolving social and cultural values. Islam can take on multiple colors and identities, from a purely transcendental faith in God to a cauldron of ideological ferment for political ideology, via diverse culture-, community-, and history-based phenomena. The volumes discusses what it means to be a Muslim in today?s Central Asia by looking at both historical and sociological features, investigates the relationship between Islam, politics and the state, the changing role of Islam in terms of societal values, and the issue of female attire as a public debate.00.

Contents:

Part 1 What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim in Today's Central Asia?

1 How 'Muslim' are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry p. 11 / Galina Yemelianova

2 Two Countries, Five Years: Islam in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Through the Lens of Public Opinion Surveys p. 38 / Barbara Junisbai and Azamat Junisbal and Baurzkan Zhussupov

3 Uzbekness and Islam: A Survey-based Analysis of Identity in Uzbekistan p. 62 / Yaacov Ro'i and Alon Wainer

Part 2 Islam, Politics, and the State

4 The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan: Episodes of Islamic Activism, Postconflict, Accommodation, and Political Marginalization p. 85 / Tim Epkenhans

5 Power, "Original" Islam, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan p. 110 / Aurélie Biard

6 Islamic Finance and the State in Central Asia p. 130 / Alexander Wolters

Part 3 Islam in Evolving Societies and Identities

7 Visual Culture and Islam in Kazakhstan: The Case of Asyl Arna's Social Media p. 157 / Wendell Schwab

8 Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-) Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector p. 187 / Manja Stephan-Emmrich

9 Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia p. 208 / Rano Turaeva

Part 4 Female Attire as a Public Debate

10 The War of Billboards: Hijab, Secularism, and Public Space in Bishkek p. 233 / Emil Nasritdinov and Nurgul Esenamanova

11 Hijab in a Changing Tajik Society p. 258 / Shahnoza Nozimova

12 Switching to Satr: An Ethnography of the Particular in Women's Choices in Head Coverings in Tajikistan p. 280 / Marintha Miles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Being Muslim in central Asia.

ISBN:

9789004306806

9004306803

OCLC:

1004269489