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"Kazakh Muslims in the Red Army is the first study of the WWII experience of Soviet Kazakhs. Based on indigenous-language sources, it focuses on the wartime experiences of Kazakh conscripts and the home front as expressed in correspondence. The study emphasizes how Kazakh social structure, religion, and patriotism were expressed and mobilized during the war years. By focusing on indigenous forms of private correspondence, the book presents an alternative to previous studies focusing on narratives and documentation derived from the Soviet state. It offers an entirely new basis for examining the wartime experiences of Soviet citizens and Soviet Muslims"--

"The book 'Gulag Miracles: Sufis and Stalinist Repression in Kazakhstan', represents the first detailed study of Muslim religious responses to totalitarian repression during the first half of the 20th century, and is therefore of interest to specialists in Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Russian and Soviet History, Central Asian and Turkic Studies, and Sufi Studies. Based on Kazakh-language hagiographies produced by Sufi communities, the monograph examines how these communities interpreted and explained the experience of repression (anti-religious policies targeting Sufis, collectivization, famine, and mass arrests), and how these communities adjusted to Soviet life after the Second World War. At the center of the study are a series of miracle stories, set in the Gulag, recounting the experiences of saints and other prominent members of these communities with Stalinist repression. These stories, rich in symbolic meaning, circulated among these communities in the Soviet era, and contain political critiques of the Stalin era, based on Islamic and Sufi ethics. These hagiographies, published in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, clearly reveal the continuity of Sufi concepts in Kazakh communities from the medieval period, through to independence, bringing into question the degree to which the Soviet era represented a rupture in the religious lives of Muslim communities. The book also considers the role of Sufi communities in Kazakh kinship structures, and their manifestation during the Soviet era. In this context, it reevaluates much that has been written about "Soviet Islam", questioning the justification for separating the Soviet Union and its Muslim communities from the rest of the 'Muslim World'. The hagiographies demonstrate that while Sufi communities underwent a degree of Sovietization, as reflected in their stories, this Sovietization was accomplished, ironically, by a parallel 'Islamization' of various aspects of the Soviet experience."--

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Sources -- The Religious and Social Foundations of Bukharan Prestige -- "Bulghar" Institutions in Bukhara -- The Student Experience I -- The Student Experience II -- The Decline of Bukharan Prestige in Russia -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Despite assertions of almost universal illiteracy among pre-Revolutionary Turkmens, an examination of the widely popular maktab primer, the Ravnaq al-Islām, shows that literacy among Turkmens before 1917 was substantially higher than previously thought. Additionally, the work and legends surrounding it show us Turkmen maktab texts contributed to a sense of supra-tribal Turkmen identity, which has generally been discounted or ignored in previous studies of Turkmen social history.

Studies the formulation, transmission and application of Islamic law under Russian colonial rulePresents the theory and application of Islamic law in the Volga-Ural region, the Kazakh Steppe, the north Caucasus and Central Asia from the 1550s to 1917Draws comparisons between Islamic law in Russia and elsewhere in the colonial worldBased upon important, but largely unstudied print and manuscript sources in Arabic, Persian and the Turkic languagesBrings together the work of an international collective of scholars of Islam in RussiaThis book looks at how Islamic law was practiced in Russia from the conquest of the empire's first Muslim territories in the mid-1500s to the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the empire's Muslim population had exceeded 20 million. It focuses on the training of Russian Muslim jurists, the debates over legal authority within Muslim communities and the relationship between Islamic law and 'customary' law. Based upon difficult to access sources written in a variety of languages (Arabic, Chaghatay, Kazakh, Persian, Tatar), it offers scholars of Russian history, Islamic history and colonial history an account of Islamic law in Russia of the same quality and detail as the scholarship currently available on Islam in the British and French colonial empires

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I. Networks of Scholars and Sufis -- The Interplay of Local Developments and Transnational Relations in the Islamic World: Perceptions and Perspectives -- The Biographical Genre in Daghestani Arabic-Language Literature: Nadir ad-Durgilfs Nuzhat al-adhänfi tarägim culamä3 Dägistän -- Einige Notizen zur arabischsprachigen Literatur der gihäd- Bewegung in Dagestan und Tschetschenien in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts -- Die Entfaltung der Naqsbandlya mugaddidiya im mittleren Transoxanien vom 18. bis zum Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts: Ein Stück Detektivarbeit -- Political Sufism and the Emirate of Kashgaria (End of the 19th Century): The Role of the Ambassador Yacqüb Xän Türa -- Düköi Isän und der Aufstand von Andizan 1898 -- Die Qozas - Arabische Genalogien in Kasachstan -- II. Inter-Ethnic Relations and Diasporas -- Islam and Ethnic Relations in the Kazakh Inner Horde: Muslim Cossacks, Tatar Merchants and Kazakh Nomads in a Turkic Manuscript, 1870-1910 -- Tatar Settlers in Western China (Second Half of the 19th Century to the First Half of the 20th Century) -- Fraternal and Benevolent Associations of Tatar Students in Muslim Countries at the Beginning of the 20th Century -- Die dagestanische Diaspora in der Türkei und in Syrien -- Die Petersburger Typen des Anatoliy Aleksandroviö Baxtiarov, oder: "Tataren und anderen Schreihälsen ist der Zutritt verboten" -- Politische Integration und religiöse Eigenständigkeit der litauischen Tataren im 19. Jahrhundert -- Die Wolgatataren und Deutschland im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts -- III. Islam and Politics in a Non-MuslimState -- The Muftis of the Orenburg Spiritual Assembly in the 18th and 19th Centuries: The Struggle for Power in Russia's Muslim Institution -- Tsarist Categories, Orthodox Intervention, and Islamic Conversion in a Pagan Udmurt Village, 1870s-1890s -- The Activity of the Muslim Faction of the State Duma and its Significance in the Formation of a Political Culture among the Muslim Peoples of Russia (1906-1917) -- Die Rolle des Islams beim Kampf um die staatliche Eigenständigkeit Tschetscheniens und Inguschetiens (1917-1925) -- Jadids, Young Bukharans, Communists and the Bukharan Revolution: From ail Ideological Debate in the Early Soviet Union -- IV. Literature -- The Perception of Works by Classical Authors in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Central Asia: The Example of the Xamsa of 'Ali Sir Nawa'I -- Rabe fliegt nach Osten, oder Ein tatarischer Weltheimatdichter im Zeitalter der Umbrüche -- V. Architecture -- Festtagsmoscheen und Feste in Mittelasien vom 18. bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts -- APPENDIX -- Transliteration and Transcription -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index