Polat, Abdummanob. "Islam and the Wahabis: A Threat to Stability?" In "Can Uzbekistan Build Democracy and Civil Society?" In Civil society in Central Asia, edited by M. Holt Ruffin and Daniel Waugh, 141-144.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999.

In this four page section, Polat reviews the state control of unofficial Muslim clergy in contemporary Uzbekistan.  He mentions many of the names of Muslim religious leaders who have been suppressed and discusses the tension between "traditional" Islam and stricter versions of Islam.  The following quote from page 142, which likely holds true today (see McGlinchey), portrays the affect of state suppression on the everyday life of Muslims in Uzbekistan:  "Today, there is no known Islamic leader in Uzbekistan, either official or independent, who feels free to express his views publicly." 

Descriptors: 1990s, A, chapter, diversity, political science, post-Soviet, section, state control, Uzbekistan; pluralism-textual/popular.