Roy, Olivier. "Islam." In The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations. Washington Square, NY: New York University Press. Reprint 2005. First published in in the US in 2000. Originally published as La Nouvelle Asie centrale ou la fabrication des nations in 1997.

While Roy discusses political Islam, he also touches on Naqshbandiyya and Yasawiyya Sufism.  He also lists many of the books, including the Chahar kitab and Haftyek (see also Muhammad Ali 2006), that were used in families to preserve Islamic knowedge and that were passed from parents to children.  In his section on parallel Islam he discusses how the Soviet repression of Islam was tempered.  For example, shrines were labled as "museums" and local KGB were complicit or unaware of popular Islamic practices.

Contents: Traditional Islam in Central Asia; The Sufi Brotherhoods: A Sufism That is Omnipresent and Takes Many Forms; Sufism and Politics; Official Islam; Parallel Islam; The Islamist Radicalisation; The New Muftiyyas and Division of the Community. 

Descriptors: 2000s, chapter, political science, post-Soviet, R, Soviet, state control, Sufism; Hanafi, syncretism.

Curtis, Glenn E. "Religion." In Turkmenistan: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1996, http://countrystudies.us/turkmenistan/14.htm.

Curtis discusses Sufi shaykhs and their role in syncretic Islamic practices, the authority of övlat lineages descended from the four Caliphs who succeeded Muhammad, Soviet atheism, and independent control of Islam.  See also his Bibliography which contains over 90 entries, mostly published in the 1990s and many of them U.S. or World Bank government agency reports.  Some of them relate to Islam in Central Asia. 

Sections: History and Structure; Religion After Independence.

DeWeese, Devin. "A Neglected Source on Central Asian History: The 17th Century Yasavi Hagiography, Manaqib Al-Akhyar." In Essays on Uzbek History, Culture, and Language, edited by Bakhtiyar A. Nazarov, Denis Sinor, and Devin A. DeWeese, 38-50.  Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, v. 156, edited by Dennis Sinor. Bloomington: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1993.

DeWeese in this chapter reviews the Manaqib Al-Akhyar, a hagiographical account completed by Muhammad Qasim in 1626. According to DeWeese this account contains valuable information on the history of Central Asia and the Yasavi and Nashqabandi Sufi tariqas.  Descriptors: 1990s, archival, chapter, D, historical, literature, pre-Tsarist, Sufism

Louw, Maria Elisabeth. Everyday Islam in Post-Soviet Central Asia. Central Asian Studies Series, Vol. 7. New York: Routledge, 2007.

Louw provides an excellent introduction to Sufism, veneration of saints, shrine visits (like the Naqshbandi shrine), and popular Islamic rituals (like bibi Seshanba) in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

Privratsky, Bruce G. Muslim Turkistan: Kazak Religion and Collective Memory. Richmond UK: Curzon, 2001.

Privratsky's book is a good ethnographic survey of contemporary Islamic practice among Kazakhs in Turkistan, Kazakhstan. It discusses, among other things, Sufism, lines of ancestry traced to the first century of Islam, observance (or non-observance) of the five pillars of Islam, shrine visitations like that of the Yasawi Mausoleum, veneration of ancestors, and healing arts. There are interesting discussions about pre-Islamic influences of contemporary religious practices and what are true Islamic practices. 

Contents: Maps and Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Transliteration; The Problem of Kazak Religion; Kiyeli Jer: Muslim Landscapes and Kazak Ethnicity; Taza Jol: The Pure Way of Islam Among the Kazaks; Aruaq: Remembering the Ancestors; Auliye: Remembering the Saints; Emshi: The Kazak Healer; Kazak Religion and Collective Memory; Religion as Culture and Spirit; Appendix: Principal Informants; References Cited; Glossary; Index