History of Muslim print magazines development in Tatarstan

Abstract

The system of Russian mass media has experienced fundamental changes over the past thirty years, that, in its turn, caused a surge development of the sector of specialized publications, which undoubtedly included the segment of Muslim publications that had arose on the wave of democratic changes in the country in the 90^s of the XX century. The article analyzes special printed Muslim magazines as a type of media published and distributed in Tatarstan in the Russian and Tatar languages. The research considers the analysis of the content of the Muslim print magazines “Al-Qibla” (“Direction to Mecca”) published between the years 2004– 2010 in the Tatar language, “Muslims” magazines published in the Russian language, “Azan nury” (“Ray of Adhan”) printed in the Tatar and Russian languages between the years 2012– 2013. The paper provides an analysis of the thematic orientation of these journals, the form of ownership, the periodicity of their release and reveals the information about the target audience and about the implementation of the functions of journalism.