Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /
In the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire's Middle Volga region (today's Tatarstan) was the site of a prolonged struggle between Russian Orthodoxy and Islam, each of which sought to solidify its influence among the frontier's mix of Turkic, Finno-Ugric, and Slavic peoples. The imm...
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Language: | English |
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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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Series: | Knowledge Unlatched Backlist Collection 2016 : History
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