[Bilimsel Haber] PUBL.- Adeeb Khalid, Islam after Communism

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PUBL.- Adeeb Khalid, Islam after Communism

Posted by: Lolita Guevarra <l_guevarra at ucpress.edu>

The University of California Press is pleased to announce the
publication of:

Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia

Adeeb Khalid is Associate Professor of History at Carleton College.
He is the author of _The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism
in Central Asia _(UC Press).

http://go.ucpress.edu/Khalid

"I know of no competing work that comes close to covering this
material. Khalid's nuanced and sophisticated analysis offers superior
treatment of the diversity of Muslim societies and the history of
Islamic thought in Central Asia. America is heavily involved in this
region, and this book is a powerful reminder of the possible costs of
unthinking U.S. support of current regimes-it should be required
reading for American politicians and concerned citizens."-Carl Ernst,
author of _Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World.

Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet
history in this sophisticated analysis of the ways that Muslim
societies in Central Asia have been transformed by the Soviet presence
in the region. Arguing that the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking
the world featured a sustained assault on Islam that destroyed
patterns of Islamic learning and thoroughly de-Islamized public life,
Khalid demonstrates that Islam became synonymous with tradition and
was subordinated to powerful ethnonational identities that
crystallized during the Soviet period. He shows how this legacy
endures today and how, for the vast majority of the population, a
return to Islam means the recovery of traditions destroyed under Communism.

Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is
available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Khalid



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