Biblo: Muslim Life


This bibliography contains works that discuss specific aspects of Muslim life in Central Asia (e.g. people, rituals, holidays, sacred sites).

Abramson, David M. and Elyor E. Karimov. "Sacred Sites, Profane Ideologies: Religious Pilgrimage and the Uzbek State." In Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present, edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, 319-338. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. View post »

Adams, Laura. "Public and Private Celebrations: Uzbekistan's National Holidays." In Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present, edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, 198-212. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. View post »

Canfield, Robert L. "New Year's Day at Ali's Shrine." In Everyday Life in the Muslim Middle East, edited by Donna Lee Bowen and Evelyn A. Early, 234-238. Indiana Series in Arab and Islamic studies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. View post »

Dautcher, Jay. Down a Narrow Road: Identity and Masculinity in a Uyghur Community in Xinjiang China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2009. View post »

Djavadi, Abbas. "Fundamentalist Calls To Ignore Norouz Go Unheard In Iran, Afghanistan." Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, March 21, 2010, Commentary Section, http://www.rferl.org/content/Fundamentalist_Calls_To_Ignore_Norouz_Go_Unheard_In_Iran_Afghanistan/1989760.htmlView post »

Djumataeva, Venera. "In Kyrgyzstan Polygamy's Rise Takes its Toll." Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, March 8, 2010, Features section, http://www.rferl.org/content/In_Kyrgyzstan_Polygamys_Rise_Takes_Its_Toll_On_Women/1977852.html. View post »

Dupree, Louis. "Tajik." In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, edited by Richard V. Weekes, 389-395. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. View post »

_____. "Uzbek (Afghanistan)." In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, edited by Richard V. Weekes, 464-469. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. View post »

Fathi, Habiba. "Gender, Islam, and Social Change in Uzbekistan." Central Asian Survey 25, no. 3 (2006): 303-317. View post »

_____. "Otines: The Unknown Women Clerics of Central Asian Islam." Central Asian Survey 16, no. 1 (1997): 27-44. View post »

Feldbrugge, F. J. M. "Criminal Law and Traditional Society: The Role of Soviet Law in the Integration of Non-Slavic Peoples." Review of Socialist Law 3 (1977): 3-51. View post »

Feldman, Walter. "Interpreting the Poetry of Mahktumquli." In Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change, edited by Jo-Ann Gross, 167-189. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992. View post »

Gladney, Dru C. Ethnic Identity in China: The Making of a Muslim Minority Nationality. Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology, edited by George and Louise Spindler. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1998. View post »

Gross, Jo-Ann. Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992. View post »

Geiss, Paul, G. "Mahallah and Kinship Relations: A Study on Residential Communal Commitment Structures in Central Asia of the 19th Century." Central Asian Survey 20, no. 1 (2001): 97-106. View post »

_____. Pre-Tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia: Communal Commitment and Political Order in Change. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. View post »

Giovarelli, Renee and Cholpon Akmatova. "Local Institutions that Enforce Customary Law in the Kyrgyz Republic: And their Impact on Women’s Rights." Agriculture & Rural Development e-Paper (March 2002).  View post »

Irons, William G. "Turkmen." In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, edited by Richard V. Weekes, 427-433. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. View post »

Kamp, Marianne. The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling Under Communism. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. View post »

Keller, Shoshana. To Moscow, not Mecca: The Soviet Campaign Against Islam in Central Asia, 1917-1941. Westport, CN: Praeger, 2001. View post »

Khalid, Adeeb. "A Secular Islam: Nation, State, and Religion in Uzbekistan." International Journal of Middle East Studies 35, no. 4 (2003): 573-598. View post »

_____. The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998. View post »

Köçümkulkïzï, Elmira. "My 'Fairy-Tale' Kyrgyz Wedding." In Silk Road Seattle (2004), http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/culture/wedding/wedding.html. View post »

Köçümkulkïzï, Elmira and Daniel C. Waugh. "Religion." In Traditional Cultures in Central Asia." Silk Road Seattle (2001), http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/culture/religion/religion.html. View post »

Liu, Morgan Y. "A Central Asian Tale of Two Cities: Locating Lives and Aspirations in a Shifting Post-Soviet Cityscape." In Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present, edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, 66-83. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. View post »

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

McGlinchey, Eric M. "Divided Faith: Trapped Between State and Islam in Uzbekistan." In Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present, edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, 305-318. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. View post »

Montgomery, David C. "Uzbek." In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, edited by Richard V. Weekes, 460-464. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. View post »

Montgomery, David W. "Namaz, Wishing Trees, and Vodka: The Diversity of Everyday Religious Life in Central Asia." In Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present, edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, 355-370. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2007. View post »

Moses, Larry W. "Uigur." In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, edited by Richard V. Weekes, 451-454. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. View post »

Mote, Victor L. Karakalpak." In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, edited by Richard V. Weekes, 201-205. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. View post »

_____. "Kirgiz." In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, edited by Richard V. Weekes, 215-220. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. View post »

_____. "Tatars." In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, edited by Richard V. Weekes, 395-400. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. View post »

Muhammad Ali. Eternal Longings: Historical Novel. Translated by Dilbarkhon Muhammad Ali qizi. Tashkent: Literature Foundation Press, 2006. View post »

Najibullah, Farangis. "In Central Asia, Unofficial Madrasahs Raise Official Fears" Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, January 27, 2010, Features section, http://www.rferl.org/content/In_Central_Asia_Unofficial_Madrasahs_Raise_Official_Fears_/1935068.html. View post »

_____. "Niqab Adds New Wrinkle To Tajikistan's Head-Scarf Ban." Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Features Section, May 4, 2010, http://www.rferl.org/content/Niqab_Adds_New_Wrinkle_To_Tajikistans_HeadScarf_Ban/2032293.html. View post »

_____. "'SMS Divorces' Cut Tajik Migrants' Matrimonial Ties to Home." Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, December 17, 2009, Features section, http://www.rferl.org/content/SMS_Divorces_Cut_Tajik/1896511.html. View post »

Niyazi, Aziz. "Islam and Tajikistan's Human and Ecological Crisis." In Civil society in Central Asia, edited by M. Holt Ruffin and Daniel Waugh, 180-197. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. View post »

Northrop, Douglas. "Subaltern Dialogues: Subversion and Resistance in Soviet Uzbek Family Law." Slavic Review 60, no. 1 (2001): 115-139. View post »

_____. "The Limits of Liberation: Gender, Revolution, and the Veil in Everyday Life in Soviet Uzbekistan." In Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present, edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, 89-102. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. View post »

_____. Veiled Empire: Gender & Power in Stalinist Central Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. View post »

Pannier, Bruce. "State Islam, Outsiders Compete for Influence in Central Asia." Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Features Section, April 5, 2010, http://www.rferl.org/content/State_Islam_Outsiders_Compete_For_Influence_In_Central_Asia/2003138.html. View post »

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. View post »

Poliakov, Sergei P. and Martha Brill Olcott. Everyday Islam: Religion and Tradition in Rural Central Asia. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1992. View post »

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

Rakhimov, Allamurad. "Central Asia: Regional Leaders Try to Control Islam (Part 2)." Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, August 5, 2005, By Country / Kazakhstan section, http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1060449.html. View post »

Rasanayagam, Johan. 2006. "Healing with Spirits and the Formation of Muslim Selfhood in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan." The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12, no. 2 (2006): 377-393. View post »

Riasanovsky, V. A. "Juristic Customs of the Kirghiz." In Customary Law of the Nomadic Tribes of Siberia. Tientsin, 1938. View post »

Roberts, Sean R. "Everyday Negotiations of Islam in Central Asia: Practicing Religion in The Uyghur Neighborhood of Zarya Vostoka in Almaty, Kazakhstan." In Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present, edited by Jeff Sahadeo and Russell Zanca, 339-354. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. View post »

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. View post »

Sahadeo, Jeff and Russell Zanca, eds. Everyday Life in Central Asia: Past and Present. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. View post »

Sarwar, Sultan. "Central Asia: Madrasahs Lead Religious Teaching Revival (Part 4)" Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, August 9, 2005, By Country / Afghanistan section,  http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1060537.html. View post »

Sarykhanov, Nurmurat. "The Book." In Against the Desert: Stories by Writers of Soviet Turkmenia. Translated by Fainna Glagoleva, 7-27. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1960. View post »

Shahbazi, A. Shapur. "Nowruz: In the Islamic Period." Encyclopaedia Iranica Online (November 15, 2009), http://www.iranica.com/articles/nowruz-ii. View post »

Sinor, Denis. "Some Latin Sources on the Khanate of Uzbek." In Essays on Uzbek History, Culture, and Language, edited by Bakhtiyar A. Nazarov, Denis Sinor, and Devin A. DeWeese, 110-119.  Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series, v. 156, edited by Dennis Sinor. Bloomington: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 1993. View post »

Spotorno, Carlos. "Hui Mosque: A Place of Worship for China's 'Other' Muslims." Steppe: A Central Asian Panorama, Steppe Seven, Winter 2009/10, Snapshot Section. View post »

Tabyshalieva, Anara. "The Kyrgyz and the Spiritual Dimensions of Daily Life." In Islam and Central Asia: An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat?, edited by R. Z. Sagdeev and Susan Eisenhower, 27-38. A Center for Political and Strategic Studies book. Washington, DC: Center for Political and Strategic Studies, 2000. View post »

Tursunov, Hamid. "Kyrgyzstan: Informal Hijab Ban Stirring Controversy." Eurasianet.org, Eurasia Insight Section, April 28, 2010, http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav042810.shtml. View post »

Walsh, Harry H. “Turkic-Speaking Peoples.” In Muslim Peoples: A World Ethnographic Survey, edited by Richard V. Weekes, 422-427. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. View post »