Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Marlene Laruelle

Part 1

What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim in Today’s Central Asia?

Chapter 1

How ‘Muslim’ are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry

Galina Yemelianova

Chapter 2 Junisbai, Junisbai, and Zhussupov

Two Countries, Five Years: Islam in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Through the Lens of Public Opinion Surveys

Barbara Junisbai, Azamat Junisbai, and Baurzhan Zhussupov

Chapter 3 Roʾi and Wainer

Uzbekness and Islam: A Survey-based Analysis of Identity in Uzbekistan

Yaacov Roʾi and Alon Wainer

Part 2

Islam, Politics, and the State

Chapter 4

The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan: Episodes of Islamic Activism, Postconflict, Accommodation, and Political Marginalization

Tim Epkenhans

Chapter 5

Power, “Original” Islam, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan

Aurélie Biard

Chapter 6

Islamic Finance and the State in Central Asia

Alexander Wolters

Part 3

Islam in Evolving Societies and Identities

Chapter 7

Visual Culture and Islam in Kazakhstan: The Case of Asyl Arna’s Social Media

Wendell Schwab

Chapter 8

Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector

Manja Stephan-Emmrich

Chapter 9

Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia

Rano Turaeva

Part 4

Female Attire as a Public Debate

Chapter 10 Nasritdinov and Esenamanova

The War of Billboards: Hijab, Secularism, and Public Space in Bishkek

Emil Nasritdinov and Nurgul Esenamanova

Chapter 11

Hijab in a Changing Tajik Society

Shahnoza Nozimova

Chapter 12

Switching to Satr: An Ethnography of the Particular in Women’s Choices in Head Coverings in Tajikistan

Marintha Miles

Bibliography

Index