Muslim Turkistan: Kazak Religion and Collective Memory

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Routledge, 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

1 THE PROBLEM OF KAZAK RELIGION
1
MUSLIM LANDSCAPES AND KAZAK ETHNICITY
30
THE PURE WAY OF ISLAM AMONG THE KAZAKS
74
REMEMBERING THE ANCESTORS
114
REMEMBERING THE SAINTS
154
THE KAZAK HEALER
193
7 KAZAK RELIGION AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY
237
8 RELIGION AS CULTURE AND SPIRIT
253
PRINCIPAL INFORMANTS
272
REFERENCES CITED
275
GLOSSARY
299
INDEX
308
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Bruce Privratsky

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