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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801454776
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Becoming Muslim in Imperial RussiaDDC classification:
  • 947.00882/97
LOC classification:
  • DK34
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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