The manufacturing of Islamic lifestyles in Tajikistan through the prism of Dushanbe’s bazaars

Islam

“…Training programs for company employees promote both capitalist profit-maximising as well as a pious care for salvation (Rudnickyj 2009). In the Arab Gulf states, migrant workers often find appeal in the combination of cosmopolitan mobility, flashy consumerism, the prospect of ascent in social class, and revivalist theologies of ethical self-discipline that are opposed to localised communal traditions (Osella & Osella 2007;Stephan-Emmrich & Mirzoev 2016).…”

Intimacy and touch: Closeness, separation and family life in Kulob, southern Tajikistan

“…These included the illegal association (and thus often detention) of a small number of citizens to groups of Islamic reform operating in the country such as Tablighi Jamaat and Hizbu-Tahrir (Schmitz, 2015). More typically, these transformations manifested in day-to-day life such as people’s retreating from drinking alcohol, attending mosques on Fridays, listening to speeches by local mullahs in CDs and DVDs, reading Quran, celebrating ‘Islamic’ weddings, and wearing veils and other ‘Muslim clothes’ (Marsden, 2012; Ibañez-Tirado, 2016; Roche, 2014; Stephan-Emmrich and Mirzoev, 2016; Mostowlansky, 2017). From 2010 and with the justification of defending the country from dangerous forms of Islamic extremism (Heathershaw and Montgomery, 2014), government officials shut down several local mosques.…”