Tatar Empire

Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia

Danielle Ross

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Indiana University Press
04 February 2020

Crimean War; History of religion

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 cuture 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.

By: Danielle Ross
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 594g
ISBN: 9780253045706
ISBN 10: 0253045703
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 04 February 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Empire that Tatars Built 1. The Age of the Settler Ulama 2. The Art of Accruing Scholarly Prestige 3. Colonial Trade and Religious Revival 4. A Shaykhly Rural Gentry 5. Knowledge, History-Writing, and Becoming Colonial 6. Muslim Cultural Reform and Kazan Tatar Cultural Imperialism 7. Fundamentalism, Nationalism, and Social Conflict 8. At War with the Tatar Kingdom 9. An Empire without Russians Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index

Danielle Ross is Assistant Professor of Asian History at Utah State University.

Reviews for Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia

This is a rich study that makes important contributions to the historiography of the Russian Empire, sharpening our picture of an empire in which lines between colonizer and colonized were far from clear. * The Middle Ground Journal *