TY  - GEN
T1  - Islam after Communism : religion and politics in Central Asia
A1  - Khalid, Adeeb, 1964-
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2014
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn869641252
AB  - 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 Communismreasons 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.
OP  - 266
CN  - BP63.A34 K535 2014eb
SN  - 9781461957188
SN  - 1461957184
SN  - 9780520957862
SN  - 0520957865
SN  - 1306402751
SN  - 9781306402750
SN  - 9780520282155
SN  - 0520282159
KW  - Islam : Asia, Central.
KW  - Islamic renewal : Asia, Central.
KW  - Islam and politics : Asia, Central.
KW  - Religion and politics : Asia, Central.
KW  - Asia, Central : Politics and government.
KW  - Islam : Asie centrale.
KW  - Renouveau islamique : Asie centrale.
KW  - Religion et politique : Asie centrale.
KW  - Asie centrale : Politique et gouvernement.
KW  - RELIGION : Islam : General.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islam and politics
KW  - Islamic renewal
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Central Asia
KW  - Nationalbewusstsein
KW  - Politisches Programm
KW  - Säkularisierung
KW  - Religionspolitik
KW  - antiterrorism.
KW  - authoritarianism.
KW  - bolshevik project.
KW  - central asia.
KW  - communism.
KW  - diplomacy.
KW  - ethnographic identities.
KW  - extremist.
KW  - god and religion.
KW  - history of the soviet union.
KW  - history.
KW  - islam.
KW  - islamic learning.
KW  - modern islam.
KW  - muslims in russia.
KW  - muslims in the soviet union.
KW  - muslims.
KW  - politics.
KW  - radical islam.
KW  - religion and politics.
KW  - religion.
KW  - religious persecution.
KW  - religious tradition.
KW  - religious.
KW  - russia.
KW  - russian history.
KW  - russian muslims.
KW  - soviet assault on islam.
KW  - soviet union.
KW  - terrorism.
ER  -