Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam is based on ten years of ethnographic and digital research covering the build-up to the current crisis of securization and mass incarceration in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The book is centred around the religious practice of a group of Uyghur women in a small village now engulfed in this chaos. Despite their remote location, these village women are mobile and connected, and their religious soundscapes flow out across transnational networks. Drawing on contemporary approaches to the circulation of popular music, Rachel Harris considers how forms of Islam, from Quranic recitation to anashid, arrive via travel and the Internet and come into dialogue with local embodied practices and facilitate powerful, affective experiences of faith. The book explores the spiritual and political geographies inhabited by rural Uyghur women, moving outward from the village to trace connections with Mecca, Istanbul, Bishkek, and Beijing. Sound, embodiment, and territoriality illuminate both the patterns of religious change among Uyghurs and the policies of cultural erasure used by the Chinese state to reassert its control over the land the Uyghurs occupy.