RT Article
T1 The Promiscuous Life of a Genre for the Dead: The Marthiya as an Instrument of Community Construction in Muslim Russia
JF Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
VO 64
IS 4
SP 343
OP 376
A1 Ross, Danielle ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1777581842
AB Abstract This article explores how the Islamic elegiac genre of marthiya can shed new light on the social and cultural history of the Muslims of Russia’s Volga-Ural region in the late imperial period (1870s-1917). The marthiyas enjoyed great popularity across geographical, ethnic, and factional lines as a medium for asserting and affirming social bonds and expressing collective identities. Volga-Ural marthiyas reveal the links between Sufism and Tatar national history-writing, demonstrate the interrelation between Sufi literature and Muslim revolutionary culture, and point to historical figures and groups that were left out of the evolving Tatar national historiography.
K1 Jadid
K1 Russia
K1 Islam
K1 Tatar
K1 Volga-Ural
K1 marthiya
DO 10.1163/15685209-12341539