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Download e-book for iPad: Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia by Maria Elisabeth Louw

By Maria Elisabeth Louw

ISBN-10: 0203961773

ISBN-13: 9780203961773

ISBN-10: 0415413168

ISBN-13: 9780415413169

Providing a wealth of empirical learn at the daily instruction of Islam in post-Soviet primary Asia, this bookВ gives an in depth account of ways Islam is known and practised between usual Muslims within the zone, focusing specifically on Uzbekistan. It exhibits how participants negotiate understandings of Islam as an immense marker for identification, grounding for morality and as a device for daily problem-solving within the economically harsh, socially insecure and politically stressful surroundings of present-day Uzbekistan. featuring an in depth case-study of town of Bukhara that focuses upon the neighborhood sorts of Sufism and saint veneration, the e-book exhibits how Islam enables the pursuit of extra modest pursuits of enterprise and belonging, in place of the utopian illusions of fundamentalist Muslim doctrines.

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This perception has also characterized Islamic revivalism among Central Asian Muslims. However, the Islamic revival in Central Asia has also had its unique characteristics connected with the specific shared historical experience of the Muslim populations of the former Soviet Union (cf. Rasanayagam 2006c: 219). As mentioned in the introduction, in the Soviet Union restrictions against religious practices had been a central aspect of government policies since the revolution. Accordingly, the Sovietization of Central Asia involved a massive assault on Islam: religious properties were confiscated, mosques and madrasas were destroyed or closed, the ulama were persecuted and Soviet Muslims were isolated from contacts with the rest of the Muslim world (Keller 2001; Ro’I 2000).

She had ‘volunteered’: ‘I am old, it does not matter if I am blown up’, she remarked sarcastically and told how she imagined how everyone there would sit with smiling faces while being scared to death. And indeed, what was shown on television from the celebrations were happy smiling faces. More disturbing pictures also found their way to the television screens. The media brought us the funerals of dead soldiers who had lost their young lives in the battle against the insurgents, and interviews with their mourning relatives: martyrs who had sacrificed their lives – or the lives of their loved ones – for the higher cause of the nation.

Neither of these laws defines the type of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia 39 dress punishable under this legislation more specifically. Nonetheless, it has provided the legal justification for a range of cases in which university and primary school students and teachers have been expelled, suspended or forced to remove their religious clothing on threat of expulsion or arrest, and where their families have been harassed by officials and security agents, as has been documented in a Human Rights Watch report from 1999.

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