ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how performances of the recited Qur’an – resounding in public spaces, circulating in the form of digital media, and embodied in daily practice – have helped to constitute new Uyghur Muslim publics in Central Asia, across the former Soviet states and in Chinese Xinjiang. In order to understand these processes, the chapter poses a series of interlinked questions. To what extent, and in what ways, were these new publics linked in their listening practices and ethical formation to other religious revivals in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to what extent were they driven and shaped by the particularities of regional history, the sensibilities of local people, and the scope for the emergence of such publics in the political environment of the time?
