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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia :

(Number (ISBN

0801454778

(Number (ISBN

9780801454776

Erroneous ISBN

0801452317

Erroneous ISBN

080145476X

Erroneous ISBN

9780801452314

Erroneous ISBN

9780801454769

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bc564

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

First Statement of Responsibility

Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cornell University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014.

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 289 pages) :

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illustrations, maps

Series Title

Knowledge Unlatched Backlist Collection 2016 : History

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-275) and index.

Text of Note

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.

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Text of Note

In the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire's Middle Volga region (today's Tatarstan) was the site of a prolonged struggle between Russian Orthodoxy and Islam, each of which sought to solidify its influence among the frontier's mix of Turkic, Finno-Ugric, and Slavic peoples. The immediate catalyst of the events that Agnes Nilufer Kefeli chronicles in Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia was the collective turn to Islam by many of the region's Krashens, the Muslim and animist Tatars who converted to Russian Orthodoxy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The traditional view holds that the apostates had really been Muslim all along or that their conversions had been forced by the state or undertaken voluntarily as a matter of convenience. In Kefeli's view, this argument vastly oversimplifies the complexity of a region where many participated in the religious cultures of both Islam and Orthodox Christianity and where a vibrant Krashen community has survived to the present. By analyzing Russian, Eurasian, and Central Asian ethnographic, administrative, literary, and missionary sources, Kefeli shows how traditional education, with Sufi mystical components, helped to Islamize Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples in the Kama-Volga countryside and set the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia. Of particular interest is Kefeli's emphasis on the role that Tatar women (both Krashen and Muslim) played as holders and transmitters of Sufi knowledge. Today, she notes, intellectuals and mullahs in Tatarstan seek to revive both Sufi and modernist traditions to counteract new expressions of Islam and promote a purely Tatar Islam aware of its specificity in a post-Christian and secular environment.

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Knowledge Unlatched

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JSTOR

Stock Number

100458

Stock Number

22573/ctt9xz69w

Title

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia

International Standard Book Number

9780801452314

Apostasy-- Christianity.

Apostasy-- Islam.

Islam-- Russia-- History.

History & Archaeology.

Regions & Countries-- Europe.

Regions & Countries-- Europe.

Russia & Former Soviet Republics.

Apostasy-- Islam.

Apostater.

European history.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Eastern.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Eastern.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Eastern.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Former Soviet Republics.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Former Soviet Republics.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.

History.

Humanities.

Islam-- historia.

Islam.

Islam.

Kristendom.

Regional and national history.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

Russia.

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HIS-- 010010

HIS-- 012000

HIS-- 032000

HIS032000

REL037010

SOC002010

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Edition

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Book number

Kefeli, Agnès

Date of Transaction

20210607060645.0

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[Book]

270410

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