"This book's timeliness lies above all in all the reminders it offers regarding the historically fluid nature of communal identities, and regarding patterns of interaction between expressions of those identities, on the one hand, and political and religious developments on the other." --Devin DeWeese, "Slavic Review"

Illustrations ix
Central Asia Book Series xi
Preface xiii
Introduction: Approaches to the Problem of Identity Formation / Jo-Ann Gross 1
I. The Shaping and Reshaping of Identity
1. The Development and Meaning of Chaghatay Identity / Beatrice Forbes Manz 27
2. Religious, National, and Other Identities in Central Asia / Muriel Atkin 46
3. Ethnic Identity and Political Expression in Northern Afghanistan / Olivier Roy 73
II. Islam as a Source of Identity
4. The Hui, Islam, and the State: A Sufi Community in China's Northwest Corner / Dru C. Gladney 89
5. Shaykh Zaynullah Rasulev: The Last Great Naqshbandi Shaykh of the Volga-Urals Region / Hamid Algar 112
6. Islam in a Changing Society: The Khojas of Eastern Turkistan / Isenbike Togan 134
III. Discourse as a Cultural Expression of Identity
7. Beyond Renewal: The Jadid Response to Pressure for Change in the Modern Age / Edward J. Lazzerini 151
8. Interpreting the poetry of Makhtumquli / Walter Feldman 167
9. Abdullah Quadiriy and the Bolsheviks: From Reform to Revolution / Christopher Murphy 190
Postscript 203
Glossary 205
General Bibliography 209
Contributors 217
Index 221