Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy
by
Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
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 immediate...