Transforming Tajikistan : state-building and Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia /

"Tajikistan is a key state in Central Asia, and will become crucial to the regional power balance as it transitions away from Soviet government systems and responds to the rise of Chinese financial power alongside the continuing presence of Russian military might. This book demonstrates how Sov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thibault, Hélène (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : I.B. Tauris, 2018.
Series:	International library of Central Asian studies ; 12.
Subjects:	Tajikistan > Politics and government > 21st century. Islam and politics > Tajikistan. 11.84 Islam: other. 89.40 internal relations of the state: general. Islam and politics. Politics and government. Tajikistan. Postkommunismus. Islam. Religionspolitik. Säkularisierung. State building. Tadschikistan. 2000-2099

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
Glossary
Notes on transliteration
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Religious revival in Tajikistan
1. A neo-institutionalist ethnography of religious revival
2. The Soviet secularization project
3. Tajikistan's political landscape in the aftermath of the civil war
4. State policies and discourses in independent Tajikistan
5. Of being Muslim in Tajikistan
Conclusion. Islam in Tajikistan : national and international influences
Notes
Bibliography
Index.