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Central Asia

A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

By: Adeeb Khalid

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Central Asia

A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

By: Adeeb Khalid

A major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and the Xinjiang province of China, it in fact stands at the crossroads of world events. Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-eighteenth century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule. Predominantly Muslim with both nomadic and settled populations, the peoples of Central Asia came under Russian and Chinese rule after the 1700s. Khalid shows how foreign conquest knit Central Asians into global exchanges of goods and ideas and forged greater connections to the wider world. He explores how the Qing and Tsarist empires dealt with ethnic heterogeneity, and compares Soviet and Chinese Communist attempts at managing national and cultural difference. He highlights the deep interconnections between the "Russian" and "Chinese" parts of Central Asia that endure to this day, and demonstrates how Xinjiang remains an integral part of Central Asia despite its fraught and traumatic relationship with contemporary China. The essential history of one of the most diverse and culturally vibrant regions on the planet, this panoramic book reveals how Central Asia has been profoundly shaped by the forces of modernity, from colonialism and social revolution to nationalism, state-led modernization, and social engineering.

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Princeton University Press

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0691235198

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9780691235196

Islam After Communism

Religion and Politics in Central Asia

By: Adeeb Khalid

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Islam After Communism

Religion and Politics in Central Asia

By: Adeeb Khalid

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.

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Univ of California Press

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0520282159

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9780520282155

Making Uzbekistan

Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR

By: Adeeb Khalid

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Making Uzbekistan

Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR

By: Adeeb Khalid

In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on the Uzbek intelligentsia allows him to recast our understanding of Soviet nationalities policies. Uzbekistan, he argues, was not a creation of Soviet policies, but a project of the Muslim intelligentsia that emerged in the Soviet context through the interstices of the complex politics of the period. Making Uzbekistan introduces key texts from this period and argues that what the decade witnessed was nothing short of a cultural revolution.

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Cornell University Press

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1501701355

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9781501701351

The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform

Jadidism in Central Asia

By: Adeeb Khalid

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The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform

Jadidism in Central Asia

By: Adeeb Khalid

Adeeb Khalid offers the first extended examination of cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule. With the Russian conquest in the 1860s and 1870s the region came into contact with modernity. The Jadids, influential Muslim intellectuals, sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture by adapting it to the modern state. Through education, literacy, use of the press and by maintaining close ties with Islamic intellectuals from the Ottoman empire to India, the Jadids established a place for their traditions not only within the changing culture of their own land but also within the larger modern Islamic world. Khalid uses previously untapped literary sources from Uzbek and Tajik as well as archival materials from Uzbekistan, Russia, Britain, and France to explore Russia's role as a colonial power and the politics of Islamic reform movements. He shows how Jadid efforts paralleled developments elsewhere in the world and at the same time provides a social history of the Jadid movement. By including a comparative study of Muslim societies, examining indigenous intellectual life under colonialism, and investigating how knowledge was disseminated in the early modern period, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform does much to remedy the dearth of scholarship on this important period. Interest in Central Asia is growing as a result of the breakup of the former Soviet Union, and Khalid's book will make an important contribution to current debates over political and cultural autonomy in the region.

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Univ of California Press

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0520920899

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9780520920897

Central Asia

A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

By: Adeeb Khalid

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A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present

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Islam After Communism

Religion and Politics in Central Asia

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Religion and Politics in Central Asia

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Making Uzbekistan

Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR

By: Adeeb Khalid

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Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR

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Central Asia

Central Asia

Islam After Communism

Islam After Communism

Making Uzbekistan

Making Uzbekistan

The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform

The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform

Central Asia

Central Asia

Islam After Communism

Islam After Communism

Making Uzbekistan

Making Uzbekistan

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