Becoming Muslim In Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, And Literacy

Kefeli shows how traditional education, with Sufi mystical components, helped to Islamize Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples in the Kama-Volga countryside and set the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia.

• | Author: Agnes Nilufer Kefeli
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 18, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 312 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0801452317
• | ISBN-13: 9780801452314