On Emotional Grounds: Private Communication of Muslims in Late Imperial Russia
Journal: Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques
Year: 2019

Abstract This article explores the practices of private communication of Muslims at the eclipse of the Russian empire. The correspondence of a young Kazan mullah with his family and friends lays the ground for an analysis of subjectivity at the intersection of literary models and personal experience. In personal writings, individuals selected from a repertoire of available tools for self-fashioning, be that the usage of notebooks, the Russian or Muslim calendar, or peculiarities of situational l