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Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia
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Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet
Central Asia
The study of Islam in Central Asia has witnessed a flourishing of interest in
recent years, but the majority of these studies have focused on the phenomenon
of radical Islamic movements. Hitherto, very little attention has been paid to
how Islam is lived on the ground among ordinary, moderate Muslim believers.
Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book examines how Islam is
understood and practised among the Muslims of Central Asia in the post-Soviet
era, focusing in particular on Uzbekistan. It shows how individuals negotiate
understandings of Islam as an important marker for identity, grounding for
morality and as a tool for everyday problem solving in the economically harsh,
socially insecure and politically tense atmosphere of present-day Uzbekistan. It
provides a detailed case study of the city of Bukhara that focuses upon the local
forms of Sufism and veneration of saints, showing how Islam facilitates the
pursuit of more modest goals of agency and belonging, as opposed to the
utopian illusions of fundamentalist Muslim doctrines. Overall, this book pro-
vides a wealth of empirical research on the everyday practice of Islam in post-
Soviet Central Asia.
Maria Elisabeth Louw is an anthropologist currently based at the Department
of Anthropology and Ethnography, University of Aarhus, Denmark. She has
done extensive fieldwork in Central Asia, focusing in particular on everyday
religion, morality and politics in the context of post-Soviet social change.
Central Asian studies series
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4 Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia
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5 Russia’s Protectorates in Central Asia
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7 Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia
Maria Elisabeth Louw
Everyday Islam in
Post-Soviet Central Asia
Maria Elisabeth Louw
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First published 2007
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© 2007 Maria Elisabeth Louw
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ISBN 0–203–96177–3 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN10: 0-415-41316-8 (hbk)
ISBN10: 0-203-96177-3 (ebk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-41316-9 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-96177-3 (ebk)

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