LEADER 04505oam 22008534a 450 001 9910169193703321 005 20230621135420.0 010 $a0-8014-5476-X 010 $a0-8014-5477-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801454776 035 $a(CKB)3710000000271212 035 $a(OCoLC)896849761 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10961886 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001369364 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11883152 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001369364 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11289376 035 $a(PQKB)10790996 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510039 035 $a(OCoLC)894227653 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37654 035 $a(DE-B1597)478538 035 $a(OCoLC)979740736 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801454776 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138668 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10961886 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681646 035 $a(ScCtBLL)4456b4b2-eea3-479c-8647-ef79d12d327e 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138668 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27857 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000271212 100 $a20140224h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBecoming Muslim in Imperial Russia$eConversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /$fAgnes Nilu?fer Kefeli 210 $aIthaca, NY$cCornell University Press$d2014 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50364-8 311 $a0-8014-5231-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aApostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abi?stays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom. 330 $aIn 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 immediate catalyst of the events that Agnes Nilufer Kefeli chronicles in Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia was the collective turn to Islam by many of the region's Krashens, the Muslim and animist Tatars who converted to Russian Orthodoxy between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.The traditional view holds that the apostates had really been Muslim all along or that their conversions had been forced by the state or undertaken voluntarily as a matter of convenience. In Kefeli's view, this argument vastly oversimplifies the complexity of a region where many participated in the religious cultures of both Islam and Orthodox Christianity and where a vibrant Krashen community has survived to the present. By analyzing Russian, Eurasian, and Central Asian ethnographic, administrative, literary, and missionary sources, 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.Of particular interest is Kefeli's emphasis on the role that Tatar women (both Krashen and Muslim) played as holders and transmitters of Sufi knowledge. Today, she notes, intellectuals and mullahs in Tatarstan seek to revive both Sufi and modernist traditions to counteract new expressions of Islam and promote a purely Tatar Islam aware of its specificity in a post-Christian and secular environment. 606 $aApostasy$xChristianity 606 $aApostasy$xIslam 606 $aIslam$zRussia$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aHistory 610 $aislam 610 $arussia 610 $aislamic education 610 $atsarist russia's middle volga region 610 $aApostasy 610 $aHadith 610 $aKazan 610 $aMuhammad 610 $aMuslims 610 $aSufism 610 $aTatars 615 0$aApostasy$xChristianity. 615 0$aApostasy$xIslam. 615 0$aIslam$xHistory. 676 $a947.00882/97 700 $aKefeli$b Agne?s Nilu?fer$0990091 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910169193703321 996 $aBecoming Muslim in Imperial Russia$92264625 997 $aUNINA