TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frank,Allen J.
TI  - Muslim religious institutions in Imperial Russia: the Islamic world of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780-1910 
T2  - Islamic history and civilization
SN  - 9004119752 (alk. paper)
AV  - DK511.V65 F73 2001
U1  - 947/.43 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Leiden, The Netherlands, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Volga-Ural Region
KW  - History
KW  - Islam
KW  - Volga-Ural Region (Russia)
N1  - Ch. 1; The Tawarikh-i Alti Ata; 1; Islamic Historiography in the Volga-Ural Region; 2; The Tawarikh-i Alti Ata --; Ch. 2; Geography and Economic Life; 1; Sacred Geography; 2; Jurisdictions; 3; The Physical Setting; 4; Economic Life --; Ch. 3; Ethnography; 1; The Alti Ata Muslims; 2; Other Ethnic Groups --; Ch. 4; Religious Figures; 1; The Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly; 2; Titles and Positions; 3; Imams in Novouzensk District; 4; Mu'adhdhins; 5; Sufis and Sufism --; Ch. 5; Mosques; 1; Sources; 2; Mosques in Russia; 3; Mosques in Novouzensk district --; Ch. 6; Islamic Education; 1; Introduction; 2; The Communal Foundations of Muslim Education; 3; The Teachers and Curricula; 4.̃; Madrasa Construction and Architecture
N2  - "The book presents a detailed examination of Russia's rural Muslim religious institutions on the steppe frontier during the imperial period. It is based on a Turkic manuscript history entitled the Tavarikh-i Alti Ata, compiled in 1910. The study examines the mosques, madrasas, imams, mu'adhdhins, and Sufis of a single district and in adjoining regions of the Kazakh steppe, areas that were inhabited by several Muslim communities, including Tatar peasants and merchants, Bashkir and Kazakh nomads, and Muslim Cossacks."; "The study compares the information from the manuscript with published sources on Islamic institutions in the Volga-Ural region, using it as a case study to draw conclusions for Russia as a whole. Special emphasis is placed on the social and communal functions of these institutions for the Muslim minorities inhabiting rural Russia."--Jacket
ER  -