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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia, Conversion; Apostasy; and Literacy

Author

Kefeli; Agn�s Nil�fer

Year

2014

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Type

BOOK

Category

History

Language

English

Pages

313

ISBN

978-0-80145-231-4

Link

Last Update

29-Oct-2024

Keywords

History ; Religion ; Anthropology

Description

Kefeli shows how traditional education, with Sufi mystical components, helped to Islamize Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples in the Kama-Volga countryside and set the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia.

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