Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

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 imm...

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Main Author: Kefeli, Agnes (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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