Adeeb Khalid: 3 books
Islam after Communism
Religion and Politics in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
How do Muslims relate to Islam in societies that experienced seventy years of Soviet rule? How did the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world by extirpating religion from it affect Central Asia? Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history to answer these...
Islam after Communism
Religion and Politics in Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Adeeb Khalid combines insights from the study of both Islam and Soviet history in this sophisticated analysis of the ways that Muslim societies in Central Asia have been transformed by the Soviet presence in the region. Arguing that the utopian Bolshevik project of remaking the world featured a sustained...
Making Uzbekistan
Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In Making Uzbekistan, Adeeb Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. He explores the complex interaction between Uzbek intellectuals, local Bolsheviks, and Moscow to sketch out the flux of the situation in early-Soviet Central Asia. His focus on...