| Sumario: | Islam in the Context of Nation-Building in Kyrgyzstan: Reproduced Practices and Contested Discourses After the dissolution of the USSR, the Kyrgyz Republic, like other post-Soviet Central Asian Republics, declared "Freedom of Religion", which made Islam widely visible in public space: many mosques and madrasas were built, religious organizations were founded, everyday Islamic practices were revived, Transnational Muslim Missionary Movements entered the country, and Islamic institutions in Muslim countries opened their doors for Kyrgyzstani students. Typically, madrasas are divided into two groups: hujra-type traditional madrasas and madrasas shaped in the style of secular educational institutions. The following three cases of Islamic teaching will illustrate differences between these two types of madrasas; how administrators, teachers, and students respond to the modernization projects of the state; as well as the differences in the modernization goals and strategies of the state and the madrasas.
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