TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kefeli, Agnes Nilufer
AB  - Winner of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History.   Through close study of Russian, Eurasian, and Central Asian ethnographic, administrative, literary, and missionary sources, this book shows how traditional Islamic education among the people of Tsarist Russia's Middle Volga region (today's Tatarstan) helped to Islamize the area's Turkic peoples, setting the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia.  "Agnes Nilufer Kefeli's thorough and imaginative use of sources is notable. She makes use of Russian official sources from the State Archives of Tatarstan and elsewhere, but she also consults a broad range of nonarchival Islamic sources, including Tatar-language Arabic-script popular literature. This makes the book highly original and important to both Russian history and Islamic studies."—Allen Frank
DO  - 10.7591/cornell/9780801452314.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 626972
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 894227653
KW  - History
KW  - islam
KW  - russia
KW  - islamic education
KW  - tsarist russia's middle volga region
KW  - Apostasy
KW  - Hadith
KW  - Kazan
KW  - Muhammad
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Sufism
KW  - Tatars
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e671b00f-1bec-47a4-ba51-12758c1c90a7/626972.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31588
PB  - Cornell University Press
PP  - Ithaca, NY
PY  - 2014-09-04
SN  - 9780801454769
TI  - Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy
ER  - 
