Islam in Russia
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: June 14, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780700710102
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Islam; Islamic studies; Russia; Social Science / Ethnic Studies
First sentence: On a cool day in April 922, a large caravan heading north from Khawarism through the lands of the sky-worshipping Oguz Turks made a stop by the river which the Arab traveller Ibn Battuta four centuries later would describe as 'the great and swollen river called Ulusu, meaning "the great stream" '.