Politicizing Islam in Central Asia : from the Russian revolution to the Afghan and Syrian jihads /
"A study of Islamist emergence and mobilization in Central Asia from 1917 through 2022, this book explores the causes, dynamics, and variation in Islamist movements—within the USSR, and then in post-Soviet Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. During the Soviet era, atheist state repression p...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Secular Authoritarianism, Ideology, and Islamist Mobilization
- Part II. The USSR Politicizes Islam: 2. The Russian Revolution and Muslim Mobilization
- 3. The Atheist State: Repressing and Politicizing Islam
- 4. Muslim Belief and Everyday Resistance
- Part III. Tajikistan: From Moderate Islamists to Muslim Democrats: 5. The Islamic Revival Party Challenges Communism
- 6. A Democratic Islamic Party Confronts An Extremist Secular State
- 7. The Attraction and Limits of Islamist Ideas in Tajikistan
- Part IV. Uzbekistan: From Salafists to Salafi-Jihadists: 8. Seeking Justice and Purity: Islamists against Communism and Karimov
- 9. Making Extremists: The Uzbek Jihad Moves to Afghanistan
- 10. The Attraction and Limits of Islamist Ideas in Uzbekistan
- Part V. Kyrgyzstan: Civil Islam and Emergent Islamists: 11. Religious Liberalization and Civil Islam in Kyrgyzstan
- 12. Emergent Islamism in Kyrgyzstan
- 13. The Attraction and Limits of Islamist Ideas in Kyrgyzstan
- Part VI. From Central Asia to Syria: Transnational Salafi-Jihadists: 14. Central Asians Join the Syrian Jihad
- 15. From Central Asia to Afghanistan, Syria, and Beyond
- Appendix
- Glossary.