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Winner of the 2014 Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award in the Social Sciences.Under Solomon's Throne provides a rare ground-level analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia's social and political paradoxes by focusing on an urban ethnic community: the Uzbeks in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, who have maintained visions of societal renewal throughout economic upheaval, political discrimination, and massive violence. Morgan Liu illuminates many of the challenges facing Central Asia today by unpacking the predicament of Osh, a city whose experience captures key political and cultural issues of the region a

Nativistic movements --- Post-communism --- Uzbeks --- Ethnic revivals --- Messianic cults --- Prophetistic movements --- Sects, Nativistic --- Cults --- Ethnology --- Nationalism --- Religion --- Messianism --- Postcommunism --- World politics --- Communism --- Usbeg (Turkic people) --- Uzbeg (Turkic people) --- Uzbek (Turkic people) --- Turkic peoples --- Government relations. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Osh (Kyrgyzstan) --- Osh (Kirghiz S.S.R.) --- Politics and government. --- Ethnic relations.