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
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 |
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