Summaries

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of content 3
3. Foreword 5
4. Biographies of Contributors 15
5. I. "High " and "Popular" Culture
6. "Devotion to the People" and Paternalistic Authoritarianism among Qazaq Intellectuals, from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1917 19
7. The Tataf Intelligentsia and the Clergy in the 1920s and 1930s 29
8. Debates over Islam in Contemporary Uzbekistan: A View from Within 39
9. Brothers and Comrades: Muslim Fundamentalists and Communists Allied for the Transmission of Islamic Knowledge in China 61
10. Chinese Muslim Women: From Autonomy to Dependence 91
11. From Oral to Written Culture: An Example from the Hui of China 105
12. II History and Memory
13. Nation into History: The Origins of National Historiography in Central Asia 127
14. Through the Textbooks The Academic Intelligentsia and the Shaping of a Tatar National Consciousness (1940s-1990s) 147
15. 'Turkistan Belongs to the Qojas': Local Knowledge of a Muslim Tradition 161
16. Local Lore, the Transmission of Learning, and Communal Identity in Late 20th-century Tajikistan: The Khujand-náma of 'Árifján Yahyázád Khujandl 213
17. Le savoir musical des Ouïghours : s'il s'agissait d'ambivalence de la mémoire ? 243
18. Annexes
19. Summaries 257
20. Glossary 265
21. Index 273