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Bruce Privratsky
Muslim Turkistan [EPUB ebook]
Kazak Religion and Collective Memory

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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.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 321 ● ISBN 9781136838248 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2845034 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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