A sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian
Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents,
oral histories, and a trove of interviews and focus groups. Few
observers anticipated a surge of Islamism in Central Asia, after
seventy years of forced communist atheism. Muslims do not
inevitably support Islamism, a modern political ideology of Islam.
Yet, Islamism became the dominant form of political opposition in
post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In Politicizing Islam in
Central Asia, Kathleen Collins explores the causes, dynamics, and
variation in Islamist movements-first within the USSR, and then in
the post-Soviet states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and historical research on
Islamist mobilization, she explains the strategies and relative
success of each Central Asian Islamist movement. Collins argues
that in each case, state repression of Islam, by Soviet and
post-Soviet regimes, together with the diffusion of religious
ideologies, motivated Islamist mobilization. Sweeping in scope,
this book traces the dynamics of Central Asian Islamist movements
from the Soviet era through the Tajik civil war, the Afghan jihad
against the US, and the foreign fighter movement joining the Syrian
jihad.
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