TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tuna,Mustafa Özgür
TI  - Imperial Russia's Muslims: Islam, empire and European modernity, 1788-1914 
T2  - Critical perspectives on empire
SN  - 9781107032491
AV  - DK 511 .V65  T86 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Volga-Ural Region
KW  - History
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Community life
KW  - Islam
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Social change
KW  - Russia
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - gnd
KW  - Muslim
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KW  - 1801-1917
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N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-270) and index; 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
N2  - "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 manage Muslim communities, the ways in which both the state and Muslim society were transformed by European modernity, and the extent to which the long nineteenth century either fused Russia's Muslims and the tsarist state or drew them apart. The book raises questions about imperial governance, diversity, minorities, and Islamic reform, and in doing so proposes a new theoretical model for the study of imperial situations"--
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