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Muslims of Central Asia : an introduction / Galina M. Yemelianova.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Edinburgh Islamic surveysPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]Copyright date: �2019Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474416344
  • 1474416349
  • 9781474416351
  • 1474416357
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Muslims of Central Asia.DDC classification:
  • 305.69/70958 23
LOC classification:
  • BP63.A34 Y46 2019eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Muslims of Central Asia before the Russian conquest -- The Russian conquest and rule of Central Asia -- The Sovietisation of Central Asian Muslims -- Muslims of Uzbekistan -- Muslims of Kazakhstan -- Muslims of Kyrgyzstan -- Muslims of Tajikistan -- Muslims of Turkmenistan.
Summary: "Between the tenth and sixteenth centuries Central Asia was one of the most prestigious cultural areas of the entire Muslim world, playing a pivotal role in the Silk Road trade. Throughout that history, and up to the present, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Turkmen and other Muslim peoples of Central Asia have developed their own unique understanding and practice of Islam which has shaped their national identity and particular social and political evolution. These special characteristics of Central Asian Islam ensured its survival during seventy years of Soviet atheist rule, while in the post-Soviet period Islam has been integrated into nation-building projects in constitutionally secular Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. This absorbing history is traced in this fascinating study which shows how, from the seventh century to the present day, the region's people have negotiated their distinctively Central Asian Islamic identity in the face of enduring external Islamic and non-Islamic dominations, ethnic nationalisms and, more recently, global transnational Islamic influences"--Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-211) and index.

Muslims of Central Asia before the Russian conquest -- The Russian conquest and rule of Central Asia -- The Sovietisation of Central Asian Muslims -- Muslims of Uzbekistan -- Muslims of Kazakhstan -- Muslims of Kyrgyzstan -- Muslims of Tajikistan -- Muslims of Turkmenistan.

"Between the tenth and sixteenth centuries Central Asia was one of the most prestigious cultural areas of the entire Muslim world, playing a pivotal role in the Silk Road trade. Throughout that history, and up to the present, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Turkmen and other Muslim peoples of Central Asia have developed their own unique understanding and practice of Islam which has shaped their national identity and particular social and political evolution. These special characteristics of Central Asian Islam ensured its survival during seventy years of Soviet atheist rule, while in the post-Soviet period Islam has been integrated into nation-building projects in constitutionally secular Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. This absorbing history is traced in this fascinating study which shows how, from the seventh century to the present day, the region's people have negotiated their distinctively Central Asian Islamic identity in the face of enduring external Islamic and non-Islamic dominations, ethnic nationalisms and, more recently, global transnational Islamic influences"--Back cover.

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