Muslim Turkistan: Kazak Religion And Collective Memory

This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the Kazak ancestor cult and domestic spirituality, and pilgrimage to the tombs of Sufi saints.

• | Author: Bruce Privratsky
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 04, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 348 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138862428
• | ISBN-13: 9781138862425