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

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /
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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.
Subjects:
Kristendom.
Islam.
Apostater.
Islam > historia.
Apostasy > Islam.
Apostasy > Christianity.
HISTORY > Europe > Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY > Europe > Eastern.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > Europe > Former Soviet Republics.
European history.
Regional and national history.
History.
Humanities.
Apostasie > Islam.
Islam > Russie > Histoire.
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries > Europe.
Russia & Former Soviet Republics.
Islam > Russia > History.
Russia.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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