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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Hlavní autor: Kefeli, Agnes (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
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Obsah:
  • 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.