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THE VANISHING GENERATION THE VA NISHING GENER ATI ON Faith and Uprising in Modern Uzbekistan Bagila Bukharbayeva IndIana UnIversIty Press This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress.indiana.edu © 2019 by Bagila Bukharbayeva All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Bukharbayeva, Bagila, author. Title: The vanishing generation : faith and uprising in modern Uzbekistan / Bagila Bukharbayeva. Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2018049718 (print) | LCCN 2019008936 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253040848 (e-book) | ISBN 9780253040800 (cl : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253040817 (pb : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Islam—Uzbekistan—History—21st century. | Islam and state—Uzbekistan—History—21st century. Classification: LCC BP63.U9 (ebook) | LCC BP63.U9 B85 2019 (print) | DDC 958.7086—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018049718 1 2 3 4 5 24 23 22 21 20 19 To my late grandmother Fatima. If you abdicate from your responsibilities as a human being . . . , and your responsibility as a human being is to treat other people as human beings, if you abdicate on that there is no end to the labyrinth, to the abyss in which you can find yourself. James Baldwin, speech at the University of Chicago, May 21, 1963 CONTENTS Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Note on Transliteration xix List of Names of Central Characters xxi 1 Making Choices 1 2 Back to Islam 26 3 Students’ Imam 49 4 A Place of No Return 78 5 Disappearances 101 6 The Andijan Revolt 126 7 The Road to Uprising 151 8 The Shymkent Raid 166 9 The Youngest Brother 185 Afterword 208 Glossary 221 Bibliography 225
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