Everyday Islam
Religion and Tradition in Rural Central Asia
Sergei P. Poliakov, Martha Brill Olcott
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Everyday Islam
Religion and Tradition in Rural Central Asia
Sergei P. Poliakov, Martha Brill Olcott
Über dieses Buch
With a rapidly growing population, deteriorating economic and environmental conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become one of the world's trouble spots. Why then the apparent political quiet? This book argues that this perception is, in itself, a reflection of our ignorance of the region. Instead, argues the author, Islamic traditionalism has not only survived but has flourished and is resurgent in Central Asia. This book includes chapters on marital customs, the care of children, communal decision making, social prestige and values, and the "second" economy in Central Asia. Poliakov demonstrates the resilience of an "un-Soviet" way of life which is supported by underground institutions, fostered by "unofficial" clergy, and protected by the infiltration and subordination of government and party organs.
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Index of Subjects
- child labor, 59, 60–61, 123–24
- climate conditions, 24
- collective farms, 14 (Table 2), 17, 23, 28, 30, 103, 140–41
- crops, 24–25
- family labor, 27
- farm machinery, 27
- government transport, use of, 27
- industrialization in, 115–16
- irrigation system. See Irrigation systems,
- land-plots. See Land-plots.
- narcotic substances grown, 25
- public versus private interests, 117
- seasonal workers, 119
- state farms, 14 (Table 2), 23, 28, 30, 43, 44, 141
- pro-Islamic agitation by, 112
- role of, 74, 109–10
- training for, 110
- amount of bribes, 47
- attempts to end, 47
- crop prices, 11 In land-plots, acquisition through, 29, 49
- “legality,” 91
- police activities, 49
- prevalence of, 46–47
- public opinion, 47, 49
- areas included in study of, 6
- ethnic representation, 8 (Table 1)
- areas ...