Is “Traditional” Islam so Traditional? A Review of: “Islam, imeyushchii mirnuyu i dobruyu sushchnost’”: diskurs o traditsionnom islame v srede tyurok-musul’man evropeiskoi chasti Rossii i Kryma [“Islam, which has a Peaceful and Good Essence”: Discourse on Traditional Islam among the Turkic Muslims of the European Part of Russia and Crimea]. Moscow: “NLO” publ., 2021, 280 pp. (In Russian)
Journal: Ишрак.
Year: 2025

The review examines a collective monograph compiled and edited by Renat I. Bekkin — “‘Islam, which has a Peaceful and Good Essence’: Discourse on Traditional Islam among the Turkic Muslims of the European Part of Russia and Crimea”. According to the reviewer, the monograph is an excellent example of an interdisciplinary approach in the field of humanities. The authors of the monograph were able to show how the concept of “traditional Islam” is constructed and what forms this construct takes in v