TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kefeli,Agnès Nilüfer
AU  - Kefeli,Agnès Nilüfer
TI  - Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy
SN  - 9780801454776
AV  - DK34 
U1  - 947.00882/97 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Islam -- Russia -- History
KW  - Apostasy -- Islam
KW  - Apostasy -- Christianity
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -