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[ Islam posle Kommunizma : Religiia i Politika v Tsentral`noi Azii]
Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia Transl. From English by A.B. Bogdanova
Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2010 304 p Serie: Biblioteka zhurnala Neprikosnovennyi zapas Hardcover. 13.5 x 21 cm ISBN: 9785867937768 Language: Russian
Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history in this sophisticated analysis of the ways that Muslim societies in Central Asia have been transformed by the Soviet presence in the region. Arguing that the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world featured a sustained assault on Islam that destroyed patterns of Islamic learning and thoroughly de-Islamized public life, Khalid demonstrates that Islam became synonymous with tradition and was subordinated to powerful ethno national 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. Bibliography.
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