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

by Danielle Ross

Overview

1. This book examines the history of Russian Muslim society, an issue of perpetual interest for scholars and students at the yearly ASEEES conference.
2. The author, Danielle Ross's, ability to speak and research in fourteen languages offers extraordinary insight not available to most scholars. She gives readers a non-Russia perspective of the Russian expansion using Turkic and Arabic-language published and manuscript sources.
3. The book will find audiences among scholars working on the history of Russian empire, Russian Muslim society, religion and the state in 17th-20th century Russia, and the history of Russian expansion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253045720
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	03/12/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	728,717
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Empire that Tatars Built

1. The Age of the Settler Ulamā

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

Editorial Reviews

"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

"Ross offers a fascinating, well-researched narrative that fills an important lacuna in our understanding of Russia's engagement with Islam. As her clearly clearly shows, Ross engages not only with topics related to the study of Islam but also with some of the key themes of Russian history: Empire and Nation, Islam and Modernity, and the way empire worked by mutual relations and not by a unidirectional vector of power and control. Her study of the Machkaran network of scholars provides an important corrective to an image of Islamic reform dominated by Central Asian and Crimean Jadidism; it is bound tostimulate further research."—Orel Beilinson, Euraian Geography and Economics

"Danielle Ross' monograph, Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia, offers a substantive and thought-provoking addition to the historiography of both the Russian Empire in general and its relationship with its subject Muslim peoples in particular. . . . Tatar Empire is a fascinating and well-written contribution to the field. It is recommended not only to scholars interested in the history of Russian-Muslim relations, but also to a wider audience of experts interested in questions of empire, religion, and the emergence of nationalism."—John M. Romero, Canadian-American Slavic Studies

From the Publisher

Danielle Ross' monograph, Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia, offers a substantive and thought-provoking addition to the historiography of both the Russian Empire in general and its relationship with its subject Muslim peoples in particular. . . . Tatar Empire is a fascinating and well-written contribution to the field. It is recommended not only to scholars interested in the history of Russian-Muslim relations, but also to a wider audience of experts interested in questions of empire, religion, and the emergence of nationalism.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies - John M. Romero

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

Ross offers a fascinating, well-researched narrative that fills an important lacuna in our understanding of Russia's engagement with Islam. As her clearly clearly shows, Ross engages not only with topics related to the study of Islam but also with some of the key themes of Russian history: Empire and Nation, Islam and Modernity, and the way empire worked by mutual relations and not by a unidirectional vector of power and control. Her study of the Machkaran network of scholars provides an important corrective to an image of Islamic reform dominated by Central Asian and Crimean Jadidism; it is bound tostimulate further research.

Euraian Geography and Economics - Orel Beilinson