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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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY
Cornell University Press
2014
Ithaca ; London : 2014. |
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423735106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.