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"In recent years, the Uzbekistan government has been criticized for its brutal suppression of its Muslim population. This book, which is based on the author's intimate acquaintance with the region and several years of ethnographic research, is about how Muslims in this part of the world negotiate their religious practices despite the restraints of a stifling authoritarian regime. Fascinatingly, the book also shows how the restrictive atmosphere has actually helped shape the moral context of peoples' lives, and how understandings of what it means to be a Muslim emerge creatively out of lived experience"--

The revving up of narrow, 'Syari'ah' based revivalist movements is chaining down the movement of women as a whole. Thanks to a concept of Syari'ah that is decidedly misogynic in putting forth rules and legislations; containing quite a bit of hatred against women, rooted in a religious view that is negatively sexual, and aimed at the female body. This has lead to simplification, reduction and generally destructive confusion manifested in numerous acts of Jilbabisasi and one-sided clothing regulations. Trampling over diversity, and taking down long.standing traditional clothing that has created no previous moral problems, some of which has become rooted in the identities of a culture, as collateral damage.