Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the peoples of Central Asia
(Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan)
have been exposed to new, Western influences that stress
individualism at the expense Central Asian traditions of family and
communalism. Young men in particular are exposed to new ideas and
lifestyles as they travel in large numbers outside their native
republics for the first time, even as contemporary Islam exerts
itself as a potent force for cultural conservatism (especially for
women). As a result, young Central Asians today confront a complex
mixture of the old and the new that strains personal relations,
especially within the family, between generations, and between
spouses. Relying on the authors fieldwork, conducted between 1994
and 2004, Muslim Youth devotes separate chapters to family life,
education, dating, and marriage in Dushanbe, the capital of
Tajikistan. Each chapter opens with a vignette that is emblematic
of the theme of the chapter, and additional stories and characters
are presented throughout each chapter to illustrate further points.
revealed as central to the struggles between tradition and
modernity.
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