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• ISBN-10: 0197685080
• ISBN-13: 9780197685082
• Author: Kathleen Collins

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 diffusion of religious ideologies, motivated Islamist mobilization. Sweeping in scope, this book traces the dynamics of Central Asian Islamist movements from the Soviet era through the Tajik civil war, the Afghan jihad against the US, and the foreign fighter movement joining the Syrian jihad.

Table contents:

Part I: Understanding Islamism
Introduction: An Overview of Islamism in Central Asia
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: Society and 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: Society and 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: Society and 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

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