Azan on the Moon is an in-depth anthropological study of people's lives along the Pamir
Highway in eastern Tajikistan. Constructed in the 1930s in rugged high-altitude terrain, the …

In the wider scientific debate, post-Soviet Central Asia has been primarily known for the
question in what ways this region currently experiences a 'New Great Game'of geostrategy …

Death-related conceptualizations and practices display local notions of religion, gender,
morality and identity. Perceptions of a mutual influence of the living and the dead are …

In the spring of 2011, I was with three Sufis at their teashop in the distant suburbs of
Dushanbe. While we sipped our tea, we talked about a poetry singing event (ghazalkhonī) in …

This paper analyses the issue of the place of the female informal religious practitioners
termed bibi otun/bibi khalifa1 within the social landscape of Tajikistan. These women play …