Providing a wealth of empirical research on the everyday
practise of Islam in post-Soviet Central Asia, this book gives a
detailed account of how Islam is understood and practised among
ordinary Muslims in the region, 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. Presenting a detailed case-study of the
city of Bukhara that focuses upon the local forms of Sufism and
saint veneration, the book shows how Islam facilitates the pursuit
of more modest goals of agency and belonging, as opposed to the
utopian illusions of fundamentalist Muslim doctrines.
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