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Suggestions for Further Reading and Internet Resourc e s 3 2 3K e l l e r, Shoshana. 2001. To Moscow, Not Mecca: The Soviet Campaigns against Islamin Central Asia, 1917–1941. Westport, CT: Praeger.This recent monograph studies the early Soviet campaigns against Islam inCentral Asia.Khalid, Adeeb. 1998. The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in CentralA s i a . Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.This is a study of the development of Muslim modernism in Central Asiaduring the Russian imperial period.Levin, Theodore. 1997. The Hundred Thousand Fools of God: Musical Travels inCentral Asia (and Queens, New Yo r k ) . Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Although this book does not deal directly with Islam, it is an astute accountof cultural transformations in the Soviet period and their post-Soviet aftermath.It is written with verve and humor, and as a bonus, it comes with a CDof Uzbek music.P r i v r a t s k y, Bruce. 2001. Muslim Turkistan: Kazak Religion and Collective Memory.London: Curzon Press.It was practically impossible for foreigners to do fieldwork in the SovietUnion, and the first non-Soviet ethnographic accounts of Central Asia havejust begun to appear in print. This account of contemporary Kazakh attitudestoward Islam is an excellent beginning.Rashid, Ahmed. 2002. Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. N e wHaven: Yale University Press.This account of contemporary Islamist militancy in Central Asia featuressome good reportage, but it suffers from a lack of historical perspective and isriddled with factual errors.Ro’i, Ya a c o v. 2000. Islam in the Soviet Union: From the Second World War to Gorba c h e v. New York: Columbia University Press.This work is a ponderous account of Soviet bureaucratic policies toward Islamin the post–World War II period.Roy, Olivier. 2000. The New Central Asia: The Creation of Nations. London: Tauris.There still does not exist an adequate account of twentieth-century CentralAsian history in English, but this is the closest thing to one.