Being Muslim in Central Asia: practices, politics, and identities

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Marlene Laruelle -- Part 1 -- What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim in Today's Central Asia? -- Chapter 1 -- How 'Muslim' are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry -- Galina Yemelianova -- Chapter 2 Junisbai, Junisbai, and Zhussupov -- Two Countries, Five Years: Islam in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Through the Lens of Public Opinion Surveys -- Barbara Junisbai, Azamat Junisbai, and Baurzhan Zhussupov -- Chapter 3 Roʾi and Wainer -- Uzbekness and Islam: A Survey-based Analysis of Identity in Uzbekistan -- Yaacov Roʾi and Alon Wainer -- Part 2 -- Islam, Politics, and the State -- Chapter 4 -- The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan: Episodes of Islamic Activism, Postconflict, Accommodation, and Political Marginalization -- Tim Epkenhans -- Chapter 5 -- Power, "Original" Islam, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan -- Aurélie Biard -- Chapter 6 -- Islamic Finance and the State in Central Asia -- Alexander Wolters -- Part 3 -- Islam in Evolving Societies and Identities -- Chapter 7 -- Visual Culture and Islam in Kazakhstan: The Case of Asyl Arna's Social Media -- Wendell Schwab -- Chapter 8 -- Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector -- Manja Stephan-Emmrich -- Chapter 9 -- Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia -- Rano Turaeva -- Part 4 -- Female Attire as a Public Debate -- Chapter 10 Nasritdinov and Esenamanova -- The War of Billboards: Hijab, Secularism, and Public Space in Bishkek -- Emil Nasritdinov and Nurgul Esenamanova -- Chapter 11 -- Hijab in a Changing Tajik Society -- Shahnoza Nozimova -- Chapter 12.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Marlene Laruelle -- 1 How 'Muslim' are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry /Galina Yemelianova -- 2 Two Countries, Five Years: Islam in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Through the Lens of Public Opinion Surveys /Barbara Junisbai , Azamat Junisbai and Baurzhan Zhussupov -- 3 Uzbekness and Islam: A Survey-based Analysis of Identity in Uzbekistan /Yaacov Roʾi and Alon Wainer -- 4 The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan: Episodes of Islamic Activism, Postconflict, Accommodation, and Political Marginalization /Tim Epkenhans -- 5 Power, "Original" Islam, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan /Aurélie Biard -- 6 Islamic Finance and the State in Central Asia /Alexander Wolters -- 7 Visual Culture and Islam in Kazakhstan: The Case of Asyl Arna's Social Media /Wendell Schwab -- 8 Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector /Manja Stephan-Emmrich -- 9 Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia /Rano Turaeva -- 10 The War of Billboards: Hijab, Secularism, and Public Space in Bishkek /Emil Nasritdinov and Nurgul Esenamanova -- 11 Hijab in a Changing Tajik Society /Shahnoza Nozimova -- 12 Switching to Satr: An Ethnography of the Particular in Women's Choices in Head Coverings in Tajikistan /Marintha Miles -- Bibliography /Marlene Laruelle -- Index /Marlene Laruelle.