From Revived Tradition to Innovation: Kolkhoz Islam in the Southern Kazakhstan Region and Religious Leadership: The Cases of Zhartï Töbe and Oranghay since the 1950s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Acknowledgements 5
3. Table of Contents 7
4. Introduction 9
5. ‘They Were All from the Country’. The Revival and Politicisation of Islam in the Lower Wakhsh River Valley of the Tajik SSR (1947–1997) 47
6. Maxim Gorki and Islamic Revolution in a Southern Tajik Cotton Plain 123
7. From Old to New Macha: Mass Resettlement and the Redefinition of Islamic Practice between Tajikistan’s Upper Valleys and Cotton Lowlands 148
8. The Economic and Religious History of a Kolkhoz Village: Khojawot from Soviet Modernisation to the Aftermath of the Islamic Revival 202
9. The ‘Enlighteners’ of Koni-Zar: Islamic Reform in a Cotton Kolkhoz 265
10. From Revived Tradition to Innovation: Kolkhoz Islam in the Southern Kazakhstan Region and Religious Leadership: The Cases of Zhartï Töbe and Oranghay since the 1950s 307
11. Withering Heights: The Re-Islamisation of a Kolkhoz Village in Dagestan: A Micro-History 367
12. Downward Mobility and Spiritual Life: The Development of Sufism in the Context of Migrations in Dagestan, 1940s–2000s 398
13. Sunflower and Moon Crescent: Soviet and Post-Soviet Islamic Revival in a Tatar Village of Mordova 421
14. Traditionalism, Modernism and Globalisation among the Volga Muslims: The Case of Sredniaia Eliuzan’ 454
15. Urban, Rural or Something in Between: The Development of ‘Alternative’ Forms of Islam in Azerbaijan through the Case of Nardaran Village in Absheron 494
16. List of Maps 516
17. List of Contributors 517
18. Indexes 518