Tatar empire : Kazan's Muslims and the making of Imperial Russia / Danielle Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Danielle, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tatars--Russia (Federation)--Kazanʹ--History.

Tatars.

Muslims.

History.

Ulama--Political activity.

Ulama.

Kazanʹ (Russia)--History.

Kazanʹ (Russia).

Ulama--Political activity--Russia.

Muslims--Russia (Federation)--Tatarstan--History.

Russia (Federation)--Tatarstan.

Russia.

Russia (Federation)--Kazanʹ.

Physical Description:

viii, 276 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Kazan's Muslims and the making of Imperial Russia

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly networks stood at the forefront of Russia's expansion into the South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there that the Tatars worked with Russian agents, established settlements, and spread their own religious and intellectual culture that helped shaped their identity in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Kazan Tatars profited economically from Russia's commercial and military expansion to Muslim lands and began to present themselves as leaders capable of bringing Islamic modernity to the rest of Russia's Muslim population. Danielle Ross bridges the history of Russia's imperial project with the history of Russia's Muslims by exploring the Kazan Tatars as participants in the construction of the Russian empire. Ross focuses on Muslim clerical and commercial networks to reconstruct the ongoing interaction among Russian imperial policy, nonstate actors, and intellectual developments within Kazan's Muslim community and also considers the evolving relationship with Central Asia, the Kazakh steppe, and western China. Tatar Empire offers a more Muslim-centered narrative of Russian empire building, making clear the links between cultural reformism and Kazan Tatar participation in the Russian eastward expansion"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : The empire that Tatars built

The age of the settler 'Ulama'

The art of accruing scholarly prestige

Colonial trade and religious revial

A Shaykyly rural gentry

Knowledge, history writing, and becoming colonial

Muslim cultural reform and Kazan Tatar cultural imperialism

Fundamentalism, nationalism and social conflict

At war with the Tatar Kingdom

An empire without Russians

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ross, Danielle, Tatar empire

ISBN:

9780253045706

0253045703

9780253045713

0253045711

OCLC:

1086075619