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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London :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.