ISBN:
9780801454769
,
0801454778
,
9780801454776
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 289 Seiten)
,
Karten ; Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Knowledge Unlatched Backlist Collection 2016
Series Statement:
History
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kefeli, Agnès Nilüfer Becoming muslim in imperial Russia
Keywords:
Apostasy
;
Islam History
;
Apostasy Christianity
;
Electronic books
;
Tatarstan
;
Islam
;
Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
;
Konversion
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
Winner of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History. Through close study of Russian, Eurasian, and Central Asian ethnographic, administrative, literary, and missionary sources, this book shows how traditional Islamic education among the people of Tsarist Russia's Middle Volga region (today's Tatarstan) helped to Islamize the area's Turkic peoples, setting the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia. "Agnes Nilufer Kefeli's thorough and imaginative use of sources is notable. She makes use of Russian official sources from the State Archives of Tatarstan and elsewhere, but she also consults a broad range of nonarchival Islamic sources, including Tatar-language Arabic-script popular literature. This makes the book highly original and important to both Russian history and Islamic studies."?Allen Frank
Abstract:
Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
URL:
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URL:
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
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