Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /
In 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 imm...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Knowledge Unlatched Backlist Collection 2016 : History
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work
- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier
- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change
- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land
- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.