Muslim Turkistan: Kazak Religion and Collective MemoryRoutledge, 2013 M11 19 - 321 pages This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the Kazak ancestor cult and domestic spirituality, and pilgrimage to the tombs of Sufi saints. |
Contents
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Collective Memory and Kazak Religion | 19 |
MUSLIM LANDSCAPES AND KAZAK | 30 |
Turkistan and Kazak Ethnogenesis | 44 |
Yasawi and His Pilgrims | 53 |
Ethnic Identity and Sacred Space | 65 |
THE PURE WAY OF ISLAM AMONG | 74 |
Upholding the Five Pillars of Islam | 82 |
REMEMBERING THE SAINTS | 154 |
Pilgrimage Scenes at the Yasawi Shrine | 168 |
New Age Religion in Kazakstan | 182 |
Conclusion | 188 |
Women as Healers | 202 |
Todays Emshi Yesterdays Shaman | 231 |
KAZAK RELIGION AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY | 237 |
Collective Memory Reconstructed | 247 |
Observing the Islamic Rites of Passage | 93 |
Two Shariahs? | 98 |
Conclusion | 109 |
Kinship Lineage and the AncestorSpirits | 115 |
The Thursday Rite of Quran and | 128 |
The AncestorSpirits and the Problem of Sacrifice | 134 |
A Muslim Ancestor Cult | 140 |
Kazak Ancestors and the Persistence of Religion | 146 |
RELIGION AS CULTURE AND SPIRIT | 253 |
PRINCIPAL INFORMANTS | 272 |
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GLOSSARY | 299 |
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Common terms and phrases
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