Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan: The Morality of Experience

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Note on Transliteration......Page 14
MAP: Uzbekistan and its neighbours......Page 15
Introduction: Towards an Anthropology of Moral Reasoning......Page 16
The Usefulness of a Moral Perspective......Page 22
Moral Creativity, Moral Reasoning, and Moral Sources......Page 26
The Practice of Research......Page 37
1 - Islam and Sociality in Pakhtabad and Samarkand......Page 42
Muslimness......Page 50
The Mahalla......Page 64
Developing Understandings of Islam......Page 73
2 - The New Soviet (Central Asian) Person and the Colonisation of Consciousness......Page 80
The Hegemony of State Discourse......Page 85
The Soviet State Regulation of Islam......Page 94
Memories of Being Muslim......Page 99
Cultural Muslims......Page 104
3 - Good and Bad Islam after the Soviet Union......Page 111
Secularism and the State Construction of Religion......Page 112
Good and Bad Islam: Authoritative State Discourse......Page 118
The Mahalla: Tradition as a Tool of Governance......Page 125
4 - The Practical Hegemony of State Discourse......Page 136
Divergent Discourses......Page 138
State Regulation and the Category of Religion......Page 145
Establishment Islam: Control by Proxy......Page 148
An Imam\'s Dilemma......Page 153
I\'m Not a Wahhabi!......Page 158
An Aqiqa to\'y......Page 169
Sociality as a Moral Source......Page 176
Direct Experience of the Divine......Page 180
Divine Truth Materialised and Entextualised......Page 187
The Moral Quality of Experience......Page 191
6 - Moral Reasoning through the Experience of Illness......Page 195
Culture and Experience......Page 196
Moral Reasoning through Experience......Page 198
The Narrative Understanding of Self......Page 203
An Islamic Revival Narrative......Page 206
Personal Fortune and Divine Judgement......Page 213
7 - Debating Islam through the Spirits......Page 218
Healing with Spirits in Uzbekistan......Page 219
Taking Spirits Seriously......Page 222
Healing Cosmologies......Page 226
What\'s in a Name?......Page 233
Moral Reasoning Objectified......Page 237
8 - Experience, Intelligibility, and Tradition......Page 245
The Intelligibility of Experience......Page 247
Beyond a Muslim Understanding......Page 249
The Idea of a Tradition......Page 256
The Intelligibility of State Discourse......Page 261
Notes......Page 266
Bibliography......Page 274
Index......Page 290