Muslims of Atbasar on the Pages of the Tatar Press: Chal¬lenges of Modernity and Regional Context
мусульмане атбасара на страницах татарской печати: между вызовами современности и региональным контекстом
Shabley P.
2022Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Gosudarstvo, Religiia, Tserkov v Rossii i za Rubezhom/State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide
2022#40Issue 1226 - 259 pp.
The article examines the development of Atbasar, a small town in the northern part of the Kazakh Steppe, in the early twentieth century, as discussed in the Tatar press. In 1906, Atbasar attracted the attention of the two influential Tatar newspapers, Vakyt and Ulfat, who approached the towns problems in very different ways. They debat¬ed over the ways the local problems could be combined with the chal¬lenges of the current imperial reforms; the reforms of Muslim edu¬cation; the process of Tatar/Turkic national consolidation, etc. The analysis of the language of publications and of the additional archi¬val sources show that such debates were motivated by the particular interests of certain involved groups (reformers, newspapers editors, merchants) rather than the desire for detailed and comprehensive analysis of the situation of a particular region. The conclusion is that the analyzed debates were, in most cases, a competition of certain lin¬guistic strategies, rather than a real discussion of efficient reforms.
Atbasar , heterogeneous society , Jadids , mahallia , Orenburg Mo¬hammedan Spiritual Assembly , Ulfat , Vakyt
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Kostanay Branch of Chelyabinsk State University, Kostanay, Kazakhstan
Kostanay Branch of Chelyabinsk State University
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