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Imperial Russia's Muslims : Islam, empire and European modernity, 1788-1914 /

"Imperial Russia's Muslims offers an exploration of social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia from the late eighteenth century through to the outbreak of the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkic sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the role...

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Main Authors: Tuna, Mustafa Özgür, 1976
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: [2015]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Critical perspectives on empire
Subjects:
Muslims > Russia Federation > Volga-Ural Region > History
Muslims > Russia Federation > Volga-Ural Region > Social conditions
Community life > Russia Federation > Volga-Ural Region > History
Islam > Social aspects > Russia Federation > Volga-Ural Region > History
Social change > Russia Federation > Volga-Ural Region > History
Muslims > Russia > History
Imperialism > Social aspects > Russia > History
Volga-Ural Region Russia > Ethnic relations
Volga-Ural Region Russia > Social conditions
Russia > History > 1801-1917
Summary: "Imperial Russia's Muslims offers an exploration of social and cultural change among the Muslim communities of Central Eurasia from the late eighteenth century through to the outbreak of the First World War. Drawing from a wealth of Russian and Turkic sources, Mustafa Tuna surveys the roles of Islam, social networks, state interventions, infrastructural changes and the globalization of European modernity in transforming imperial Russia's oldest Muslim community: the Volga-Ural Muslims. Shifting between local, imperial and transregional frameworks, Tuna reveals how the Russian state sought to
Carrier Form: xiii, 276 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-270) and index.
ISBN: 9781107032491 (hardback) :
1107032490 (hardback)
Index Number: DK511
CLC: K512.9
Call Number: K512.9/T926
Contents: A world of Muslims -- 2. Connecting Volga-Ural Muslims to the Russian State -- 3. Russification : unmediated governance and the Empire's quest for ideal subjects -- 4. Peasant responses : protecting the inviolability of the Muslim domain -- 5. Russia's great transformation in the second half of the long nineteenth century (1860-1914) -- 6. The wealthy : prospering with the sea-change and giving back -- 7. The cult of progress -- 8. Alienation of the Muslim intelligentsia -- 9. Imperial paranoia -- 10. Flexibility of the Imperial domain and the limits of integration.

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