| Description |
xii, 243 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index |
| Contents |
1. Historical Overview -- 1. Early religious practices and beliefs -- 2. Islam in Central Asia -- 3. Central Asia under Russian and Soviet rule -- 4. ̀€Land ploughed by Cultural Revolution' -- 2. Shamanism in Nomadic Culture -- 5. Theory and practice -- 6. How to become a Shaman? -- 7. Women and Shamanism in Central Asia -- 8. Epic forms: Kyrgyz heroic Manas -- 9. Shamanism and Islam -- 3. Sufism in Central Asia -- 10. Historical development -- 11. Main Tariqahs of Central Asia: Naqshbandiyya, Kubraviyya, Yassaviya, and Qadiriyya -- 12. Zikr in the Ferghana Valley: Male society -- 4. Female Sufism -- 13. Historical overview -- 14. Sufi poetry in Central Asia: Ghazal and female poets -- 5. Transmission of Sacred Knowledge in Its Connection to Sufi Tradition -- 15. Ustad-Shogird training in medieval sources -- 16. Ustad-Shogird tradition today -- 17. Mehterlik or professional guilds -- 18. Hofizlik professional training in music -- 6. Music and Female Sufis -- 19. Sufi masters in music -- 20. Sufi music in Central Asia: from court to folk traditions -- 21. Central Asian Sufi music and female singers -- 22. Female Maqam singers -- 23. Munojat Yulchieva -- 24. Sufi origin genre Katta Ashula -- 7. Interaction of Shamanism and Sufism in Central Asian Female Performance -- 25. From healing rituals to protective songs -- 26. Female Shamanism in Turkmenistan -- 27. Galeke: the Kazakh Shaman -- 28. Female Shamanism in Tajikistan -- 29. Elements of Shamanism and Sufism in Uzbek folk music -- 8. Musical Instruments and Dance in Female Communities -- 30. Musical instruments: from Shamanism to Sufism -- 31. Dutar -- 32. Dances in Central Asian culture -- 9. Female Folk Sufism -- 33. Female religious practices -- 34. Otin-Oy as female Sufi Pir -- 35. How to become an Otin-Oy. Malika Asqarova's case -- 36. Sufi rituals led / Otin-Oy -- 37. Zikr -- 38. Current situation: female religious school in Bukhara -- 10. Female Rituals -- 39. Other rituals led / Otin-Oy -- 40. Classification of religious rituals led / Otin-Oy -- 41. O'qish (reading) as a ritual session -- 42. Pre-Islamic practices / Mushkul Kushod -- 43. Female rites of passage -- 44. Toy (wedding celebration) as a Sufi feast -- 45. Calendar rituals led / Otin-Oy -- 46. Otin-Oy in Uzbek pop culture -- 11. Similar Female Rituals in the Turkic-Speaking World (in Tatar, Azeri, Turkish, Cypriot, and Afghani Traditions) -- 47. Turkic rituals and ceremonies -- 48. How musical are female rituals? |
| Subject |
Women -- Asia, Central -- Social conditions.
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Women in Islam -- Asia, Central.
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Asia, Central -- Social conditions.
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| Variant Title |
Women, Islam and culture in Central Asia |
| ISBN |
9781848853096 (hbk.) |
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1848853092 (hbk.) |
| Call Number |
HQ1735.22 .S85 2011 |
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