Muslim Cultural Decline in Imperial Russia: A Manufactured Crisis
Since the first three decades of the twentieth century, the Islamic history of the Volga-Ural region has been based, for the most part, on a modernist narrative in which the dominant frame of reference for understanding these Muslim communities has been an ethno-national framework, focused, above al...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
Year: 2016, Volume: 59, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 166-192 |
| Further subjects: | B
Historiography
B Education B Jadidism B Kazakhs B Kazakhstan B Volga-Ural Region B Tatars B Russia |
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| Summary: | Since the first three decades of the twentieth century, the Islamic history of the Volga-Ural region has been based, for the most part, on a modernist narrative in which the dominant frame of reference for understanding these Muslim communities has been an ethno-national framework, focused, above all, on the role of the Tatar bourgeoisie in promoting Islamic reformism and Islamic modernism. The main sources for this framework have been the political writings of the Jadids, Islamic reformists and modernists who later became engaged the mass-movement politics, beginning in 1905 and continuing through the Russian civil war and the first decade of Soviet power. A central feature of the Jadid narrative, which has carried over into the historiography, has been that Muslim society, particularly in Russia’s Volga-Ural region, was facing a crisis brought about by the supposed failure of its traditional Islamic institutions in the face of a modernizing Russia. An examination of non-Jadid Islamic sources from this era, however, brings the “crisis” narrative into question. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5209 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341396 |