Reliogious Politics of Russian Royalty Related to Turkic Muslim People (original) (raw)

The Muslim Religiosity of the Kazakhs in the Context of the Imperial Policy of Russia

Bylye Gody, 2020

The article is devoted to the development of Islam in Kazakhstan in the Russian Empire. The authors, relying on a wide range of archival materials and publications of modern times demonstrated the evolution of Muslim views of the Kazakh population from its complete rejection to the struggle for their rights in freedom of conscience and religion. Tatar, Bukhara, Tashkent Ministers of religious cult played an important role in the spread of Islam in Kazakhstan. Among the issues covered in the article, special attention was paid to the analysis of the content of the Imperial policy towards the Kazakh population, namely Russification and Christianization, in the prohibition and closure of spiritual and educational institutions, in preventing the construction of architectural religious buildings. The government of the Russian Empire regulated the activities of Muslim clergy, as well as controlled the pilgrimage of Muslims. Such strict state control eventually led to the emergence of protest moods and the opposite transformation of the religious Outlook of the Kazakhs, who converted to Islam largely as a result of administrative islamization.

For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia

Common Knowledge, 2009

Review Stalin in Mecca Robert D. Crews analyzes Tsarist Russia and Islam. And a story about Soviet Muslims as “consensual imperial subjects” Although the Russian and Islamic empires were heirs to a common Byzantine heritage, they experienced about a half-millennium of bellicose relations while the Russians expanded steadily into Central Asian lands. Splendidly, “this book shows how Russia became a Muslim power and how the government made Islam a pillar of imperial society, transforming Muslims into active participants in the daily operation of the autocracy and the local construction and maintenance of the empire.” Robert D. Crews: For Prophet and Tsar. Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 2006, 463 pp.

Relations between the Muslim communities and the Russian Orthodox Church in Western Siberia in the second half of XIX – early XX century in the context of confessional policy of the Russian

The problem of relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Muslim communities of Western Siberia in the context of state-confessional policy of the Russia in the second half of XIX-early XX century is considered in the article. The dominant position of the Russian Orthodox Church led to the fact that the government regarded it as a companion for the policy of russification and degradation of the features of non-Orthodox religions, including Islam. This line of national policy in Russia forced the Muslim community to defend their rights. The government's attempts to interfere in religious affairs did not lead to result, but caused the indignation in the Muslim world. A decree on strengthening the foundations of religious tolerance, adopted in 1905, reduced the number of foreigners who wanted to embrace Orthodoxy. Since that time a great opportunity offers for the functioning of the Muslim communities in different regions of the Russian Empire, although total freedom of conscience was absent.

Islam in the History of Russia: Confrontation vs. Cooperation

The EUrASEANs: journal on global socio-economic dynamics, 2022

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the key stages in the development of relations between Russia and Islam and to give a concise analysis of their political and cultural consequences. The article is divided into two parts. The first part outlines the history of Islam in Russia. The second part deals with the Soviet Union’s stance on the Islamic faith. We can state that Islam in Russia has deep historical and cultural roots. The very fact that this religion has survived through the centuries of confrontation and cooperation proves how unique the relations between Russia and the Muslim world are. The history of Islam in Russia offers lessons to be learned as the religion as such poses great challenges to this multi-religious and multi-ethnic country.