TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khalid,Adeeb
TI  - Islam after Communism: religion and politics in Central Asia 
SN  - 9781461957188
AV  - BP63 .I853 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Asia, Central
KW  - Islamic renewal
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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 pages
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