Islam after Communism : Religion and Politics in Central Asia / Adeeb Khalid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khalid, Adeeb, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Asia, Central.

Islam.

Islamic renewal--Asia, Central.

Islamic renewal.

Islam and politics--Asia, Central.

Islam and politics.

Religion and politics--Asia, Central.

Religion and politics.

Asia, Central--Politics and government.

Asia, Central.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

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 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.Islam after Communism reasons that the fear of a rampant radical Islam that dominates both Western thought and many of Central Asia's governments should be tempered with an understanding of the politics of antiterrorism, which allows governments to justify their own authoritarian policies by casting all opposition as extremist. Placing the Central Asian experience in the broad comparative perspective of the history of modern Islam, Khalid argues against essentialist views of Islam and Muslims and provides a nuanced and well-informed discussion of the forces at work in this crucial region.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520957862

0520957865

OCLC:

869641252