Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy.
Kefeli, Agnès Nilüfer.
Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (313 pages)
Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Apostasy, Conversion, and Literacy at Work -- 2. Popular Knowledge of Islam on the Volga Frontier -- 3. Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: Agents of Change -- 4. Christian Martyrdom in Bolghar Land -- 5. Desacralization of Islamic Knowledge and National Martyrdom -- Conclusion and Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Kefeli shows how traditional education, with Sufi mystical components, helped to Islamize Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples in the Kama-Volga countryside and set the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia.
9780801454776
Islam -- Russia -- History.
Apostasy -- Islam.
Apostasy -- Christianity.
Electronic books.
DK34
947.00882/97
Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (313 pages)
Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. Apostasy, Conversion, and Literacy at Work -- 2. Popular Knowledge of Islam on the Volga Frontier -- 3. Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: Agents of Change -- 4. Christian Martyrdom in Bolghar Land -- 5. Desacralization of Islamic Knowledge and National Martyrdom -- Conclusion and Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Kefeli shows how traditional education, with Sufi mystical components, helped to Islamize Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples in the Kama-Volga countryside and set the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia.
9780801454776
Islam -- Russia -- History.
Apostasy -- Islam.
Apostasy -- Christianity.
Electronic books.
DK34
947.00882/97