Russian Perspectives on Islam documents the encounter and evolving relationship between the secular/Orthodox state and the Islamic regions, groups, individuals, and ideologies on the territory of the former Soviet Union and neighboring countries. This set of unique materials illuminates the strategies implemented by the Soviet and Russian state to establish authority and legitimacy among predominantly Muslim populations in Central Asia, the Northern Caucasus and Siberia and to enhance Moscow’s influence internationally with nearby Muslim countries, including Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey. The digital archive is designed to disseminate these documents to the widest possible scholarly community and general readership. Read more...
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Note datée du 9 Fevrier 1921 sur les Tatars de Crimée
Note dated February 9th, 1921 on the Tartars of Crimea
1921-02-09
Записка "Татары Крыма"
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Military Mullahs

How the Activities of Full-Time Muslim Clergy in the Russian Army Were Organized Between 1914 and 1917 Read Introduction by N. Podpriatov
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Religious Boards of Transcaucasian Muslims in the Russian Empire, 19-20th centuries

An anthology of documents reflecting the process of Islam’s evolution in the Russian Empire, in particular its institutionalization in the...