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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Main Author: Collins, Kathleen, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.