The Mountain Side as a Center of Muslim Culture in the 18th-19th Centuries: Historical and Genealogical Analysis
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2025-18-3-556-573
Abstract
The Mountain Side is a historical territory in the southwest of modern Tatarstan and adjacent regions. The article reconstructs the history of Muslim spiritual culture of this territory. The main method of the work is historical and genealogical analysis. For this purpose, narratives and a large array of documentary sources from state archives were studied. The authors presented the family and cultural ties between the different historical regions of Tatar residence, the active interaction between different dynasties of ulema and the traditions of mentoring. The publication contains an episode about one of the little-known branches of the genealogy of the Muslim theologian Shihab al-Din al-Marjani, as well as some other religious dynasties from the Mountain Side. They played a prominent role not only in their small homeland, but also beyond its borders.
Keywords
Drozhzhanoe district,
history of Tatarstan,
Buinsk district,
Shihab al-Din al-Marjani,
Sufism,
historical genealogy
UDC: 929.5
About the Authors
R. R. Salikhov
Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Radik R. Salikhov, Dr. Sci. (History), Full Member of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Director of Marjani Institute of History
Kazan
L. R. Gabdrafikova
Tatarstan Academy of Sciences ; Federal Research Center “Kazan Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Sciences”, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Liliya R. Gabdrafikova, Dr. Sci. (History), Leading Research Fellow of the Laboratory of Multifactorial Humanitarian Analysis and Cognitive Philology; а Senior Researcher of Marjani Institute of History
Kazan
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For citations:
Salikhov R.R., Gabdrafikova L.R. The Mountain Side as a Center of Muslim Culture in the 18th-19th Centuries: Historical and Genealogical Analysis. Minbar. Islamic Studies. 2025;18(3):556-573. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2025-18-3-556-573
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