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1 online resource (266 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Islam -- Asia, Central.
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Islam. |
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Central Asia. |
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Islamic renewal -- Asia, Central.
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Islamic renewal. |
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Islam and politics -- Asia, Central.
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Islam and politics. |
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Religion and politics -- Asia, Central.
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Religion and politics. |
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Asia, Central -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Khalid, Adeeb, 1964- Islam after communism : religion and politics in Central Asia. Berkeley, California : University of California Press, ©2014 xii, 241 pages 9780520282155 |
| ISBN |
9781461957188 (electronic book) |
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1461957184 (electronic book) |
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9780520957862 (electronic book) |
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0520957865 (electronic book) |
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9780520282155 |
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0520282159 |
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