Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley write by Vladimir Nalivkin. This book was released on 2016-07-04. Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Muslim Women of the Fergana Valley is the first English translation of an important 19th-century Russian text describing everyday life in Uzbek communities. Vladimir and Maria Nalivkin were Russians who settled in a "Sart" village in 1878, in a territory newly conquered by the Russian Empire. During their six years in Nanay, Maria Nalivkina learned the local language, befriended her neighbors, and wrote observations about their lives from birth to death. Together, Maria and Vladimir published this account, which met with great acclaim from Russia's Imperial Geographic Society and among Orientalists internationally. While they recognized that Islam shaped social attitudes, the Nalivkins never relied on common stereotypes about the "plight" of Muslim women. The Fergana Valley women of their ethnographic portrait emerge as lively, hard-working, clever, and able to navigate the cultural challenges of early Russian colonialism. Rich with social and cultural detail of a sort not available in other kinds of historical sources, this work offers rare insight into life in rural Central Asia and serves as an instructive example of the genre of ethnographic writing that was emerging at the time. Annotations by the translators and an editor's introduction by Marianne Kamp help contemporary readers understand the Nalivkins' work in context.
Women, Islam, and Identity
Women, Islam, and Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Islam, and Identity write by Svetlana Peshkova. This book was released on 2014-11-25. Women, Islam, and Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This pioneering ethnographic work centers on the dynamics of female authority within the religious life of a conservative Muslim community in the Fergana Valley of Uzbekistan. Peshkova draws upon several years of field research to chronicle the daily lives of women religious leaders, known as otinchalar, and the ways in which they exert a powerful influence in the religious life of the community. In this gender-segregated society, the Muslim women leaders have staked out a vibrant space in which they counsel and assist the women in their specific religious needs. Peshkova finds that otinchalar’s religious leadership filters into other areas of society, producing social changes beyond the ritual realm and challenging stereotypical definitions of what it means to be a Muslim woman. Weaving together the stories of individuals’ daily lives with her own journey to and from post-Soviet Central Asia, Peshkova provides a rich analysis of identity formation in Uzbekistan. She presents readers with a nuanced portrait of religion and social change that starts with an individual informed but not determined by the sociohistoric context of the region.
Muslim Women in Colonial Surma Valley
Muslim Women in Colonial Surma Valley - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Muslim Women in Colonial Surma Valley write by Begam Abida Sultana. This book was released on 2016. Muslim Women in Colonial Surma Valley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Being Muslim in Central Asia
Being Muslim in Central Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Being Muslim in Central Asia write by . This book was released on 2018-01-03. Being Muslim in Central Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the changing place of Islam in contemporary Central Asia, understanding religion as a “societal shaper” – a roadmap for navigating quickly evolving social and cultural values. Islam can take on multiple colors and identities, from a purely transcendental faith in God to a cauldron of ideological ferment for political ideology, via diverse culture-, community-, and history-based phenomena. The volumes discusses what it means to be a Muslim in today’s Central Asia by looking at both historical and sociological features, investigates the relationship between Islam, politics and the state, the changing role of Islam in terms of societal values, and the issue of female attire as a public debate. Contributors include: Aurélie Biard, Tim Epkenhans, Nurgul Esenamanova, Azamat Junisbai, Barbara Junisbai, Marlene Laruelle, Marintha Miles, Emil Nasritdinov, Shahnoza Nozimova, Yaacov Ro'i, Wendell Schwab, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Rano Turaeva, Alon Wainer, Alexander Wolters, Galina M. Yemelianova, Baurzhan Zhussupov
Everyday Islam
Everyday Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Everyday Islam write by Sergei P. Poliakov. This book was released on 2016-07-22. Everyday Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With a rapidly growing population, deteriorating economic and environmental conditions, and an unstable imperial centre, Soviet Central Asia would seem destined to become one of the world's trouble spots. Why then the apparent political quiet? This book argues that this perception is, in itself, a reflection of our ignorance of the region. Instead, argues the author, Islamic traditionalism has not only survived but has flourished and is resurgent in Central Asia. This book includes chapters on marital customs, the care of children, communal decision making, social prestige and values, and the "second" economy in Central Asia. Poliakov demonstrates the resilience of an "un-Soviet" way of life which is supported by underground institutions, fostered by "unofficial" clergy, and protected by the infiltration and subordination of government and party organs.
