Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia

The Memoirs of 'Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri
2022
ISBN: 978-3-506-79377-5
Verlag: Brill I Schoeningh

Buch, Englisch, Multiple languages, Arabisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 946 g

Reihe: Brill | Schöningh

The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Our book tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment of the South Urals, who memorized the entire Qur’an at the Mosque of the Prophet. In Russia he travelled widely, performing the Qur'an recitations. The Stalinist terror was merciless to him: in total, he spent fifteen years of his life in labour camps in Solovki, in the North, and Tashkent, in the south. At the end of his life, al-Qadiri wrote the fascinating memoirs that we analysed and translated in this book for the first time. Al-Qadiri’s life account allows us to look at the history of Islam in Russia from a new angle. His lively language provides access to everyday concerns of Russia’s Muslims, their personal interactions, their emotions, and the material world that surrounded them. Al-Qadiri’s book is a book of memory, full of personal drama and hope.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Qa¯diri¯, ?Abd al-Mag?i¯d al-

Bustanov, Al'frid Kašafovic

Usmanov, Vener

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bustanov, Alfrid

Usmanov, Vener

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Der Islam und die Moderne (Westliche) Welt
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Alfrid Bustanov is an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam and a principal investigator of the ERC project MIND: The Muslim Individual in Imperial and Muslim Russia (2019–2024). He published widely on past and present of Islam in Russia, including the history of Muslim subjectivities and Soviet Orientalism.
Vener Usmanov is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Language, Literature, and Arts (Kazan).