Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy

Winner of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History. Through close study of Russian, Eurasian, and Central Asian ethnographic, administrative, literary, and missionary sources, this book shows how traditional Islamic education among...

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Main Author: Kefeli, Agnes Nilufer (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 20140904
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