Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy / Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli.
Title:
Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy / Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli.
ISBN:
9780801454769
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Publication Information:
Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2021]
©2014
Physical Description:
1 online resource : illustrations, maps
General Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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.
Summary:
Explores the religious history of the Russian Empire's Middle Volga region during the nineteenth century when many Kräshens, the Muslim and animist Tatars who converted to Russian Orthodoxy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, turned to Islam. Examines how people in the region practiced both Islam and Orthodox Christianity during this time and prompted the development of modernist Islam in Russia. Includes black-and-white photographs and maps.
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Electronic Access:
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Interest grade level:
Adult.
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