Muslim Turkistan: Kazak Religion and Collective MemoryPsychology Press, 2001 - 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
Perspectives on Kazak Religion | 7 |
Collective Memory and Kazak Religion | 19 |
MUSLIM LANDSCAPES AND KAZAK | 30 |
Turkistan and Kazak Ethnogenesis | 44 |
Yasawi and His Pilgrims | 53 |
Conclusion | 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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Abdisalih Alim Qoja Almaty Amal Qoja amulet ancestor cult ancestor-spirits anthropology Arabic Arstan Bab ärūaq äuliye ayan Baba Baqitbergen baqsis baqsı bata believes blessing boladı Botajan called Central Asia Chapter claim collective memory complex DeWeese dhikr divination dream emshi ethnic ethnographic experience Fatima hajj healing honor identity Inner Asian Islam Kazak ancestors Kazak culture Kazak healers Kazak language Kazak religion Kazak woman Kazakstan kiye knife lineage living meal means mosque Muhammad mullah Muslim saints Muslim world namaz niyet nomadic Nurali OEMIW Otrar palshi person pilgrimage pilgrims prayer Prophet pure Qazaq qobiz Qoja Quran Quran recital recite the Quran religious rite ritual Russian sacrifice Sarı Sayram shamanism Shariah Sharipbek's Shymkent Sızdıqova social Soviet period spirits steppe Sufi Sufism Sunaq Syr Darya täwip taza term theory Thursday Turkic Turkistan Uljalgas Uzbek Valikhanov wali women word Yasawi Shrine Yasawi University zikir ziyarat Zulfiya
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Page 280 - Press. Chylinski, Ewa A. 1991. Ritualism of family life in Soviet Central Asia: The sunnat (circumcision). In Cultural change and continuity in Central Asia, ed. Shirin Akiner. London: Kegan Paul.