Jamela just posted a review of Everyday Islam, a book by a soviet anthropoligist about the tenacity of tradition and failure of sovietization in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. You can read it here:
Everyday Islam–Soviet Anthropologist on Central Asia « Birds’ Books
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