Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia
Subtitle: The Islamic World of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780-1910 (Islamic History and Civilization)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: March 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9789004119758
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Islamic studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Muslims; Russia - History; History - General History; Volga-Ural Region (Russia); History: World; ASIA; Russia; Russia (Federation); Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Islam - History; History; Islam; Volga-Ural Region
Description: "The book presents a detailed examination of Russia's rural Muslim religious institutions on the steppe frontier during the imperial period. It is based on a Turkic manuscript history entitled the Tavarikh-i Alti Ata, compiled in 1910. The study examines the mosques, madrasas, imams, mu'adhdhins, and Sufis of a single district and in adjoining regions of the Kazakh steppe, areas that were inhabited by several Muslim communities, including Tatar peasants and merchants, Bashkir and Kazakh nomads, and Muslim Cossacks."

"The study compares the information from the manuscript with published sources on Islamic institutions in the Volga-Ural region, using it as a case study to draw conclusions for Russia as a whole. Special emphasis is placed on the social and communal functions of these institutions for the Muslim minorities inhabiting rural Russia."--Jacket.