{"product_id":"politicizing-islam-in-central-asia-9780197685075","title":"Politicizing Islam in Central Asia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping history of Islamism in Central Asia from the Russian Revolution to the present through Soviet-era archival documents, oral histories, and a trove of interviews and focus groups.Few observers anticipated a surge of Islamism in Central Asia, after seventy years of forced communist atheism. Muslims do not inevitably support Islamism, a modern political ideology of Islam. Yet, Islamism became the dominant form of political opposition in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In Politicizing Islam in Central Asia, Kathleen Collins explores the causes, dynamics, and variation in Islamist movements-first within the USSR, and then in the post-Soviet states of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic and historical research on Islamist mobilization, she explains the strategies and relative success of each Central Asian Islamist movement. Collins argues that in each case, state repression of Islam, by Soviet and post-Soviet regimes, together with the\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable in scope and depth, drawing on everything from interviews in the Ferghana Valley to jihadi propaganda in multiple languages, Collins' book is a contender for the definitive work on the rise of militant Islamism in Central Asia. * Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford University, and author of The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad and Jihad in Saudi Arabia *\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking study of Islamism's evolution in Central Asia, Kathleen Collins' remarkable feat of scholarship should be required reading for all serious analysts and observers of this important region. Collins' book offers irrefutable evidence that religious freedom is the best counterterrorism policy. * Mike Croissant, US government counterterrorism officer (ret.) *\u003cbr\u003ePoliticizing Islam covers a lot of ground and is based on a massive amount of sustained original research. Collins traces three waves of Islamist mobilization, each one a response to state repression. Her use of interviews and focus groups allows her to bring society back in into the analysis. She makes a clearly thought-out argument on the basis of impressive research. * Adeeb Khalid, Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History, Carleton College, and author of Making Uzbekistan and Islam After Communism *\u003cbr\u003eCollins achieves something extraordinary in this masterful and careful analysis of Islamism in Central Asia. Based on years of in-depth interviews, archival materials, and other sources, Collins traces the emergence of Islamist movements, from the moderate and democratic to the radical and militant in Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Along the way, she reveals the lived experiences of many Kyrgyz, Tajik, and Uzbek religious believers. Without demonizing Islam or sensationalizing Islamism, Collins enriches our understanding of both Soviet and post-Soviet religious repression and its unintended consequences: making Islam more resilient and fostering a religious basis for political opposition. Anyone endeavoring to understand the fabric of modern-day Central Asia should closely read Collins' scholarship. * Steve Swerdlow, Associate Professor of the Practice of Human Rights, University of Southern California, and former Senior Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures List of Images List of Tables  List of Maps Acknowledgements Technical Note List of Acronyms  PART I Introduction 1:  Secular Authoritarianism, Ideology, and Islamist Mobilization  PART II: The USSR Politicizes Islam 2:  The Russian Revolution and Muslim Mobilization  3:  The Atheist State: Repressing and Politicizing Islam  4:  Muslim Belief and Everyday Resistance  PART III: Tajikistan: From Moderate Islamists to Muslim Democrats 5:  The Islamic Revival Party Challenges Communism 6:  A Democratic Islamic Party Confronts An Extremist Secular State  7:  The Attraction and Limits of Islamist Ideas in Tajikistan  PART IV: Uzbekistan: From Salafists to Salafi-Jihadists  8:  Seeking Justice and Purity: Islamists against Communism and Karimov  9:  Making Extremists: The Uzbek Jihad Moves to Afghanistan 10: The Attraction and Limits of Islamist Ideas in Uzbekistan  PART V: Kyrgyzstan: Civil Islam and Emergent Islamists 11: Religious Liberalization and Civil Islam in Kyrgyzstan  12:  Emergent Islamism in Kyrgyzstan 13:  The Attraction and Limits of Islamist Ideas in Kyrgyzstan  PART VI: From Central Asia to Syria: Transnational Salafi-Jihadists 14:  Central Asians Join the Syrian Jihad 15:  From Central Asia to Afghanistan, Syria, and Beyond  Appendix Glossary Index","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732674752855,"sku":"9780197685075","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197685075.jpg?v=1719997902","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politicizing-islam-in-central-asia-9780197685075","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}