Arabic script manuscripts as a source for studying the Intellectual history of Muslims of the Ural-Volga region (based on handwritten materials from the collection of the Scientific library of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences)

The article is devoted to the historical analysis of Arabic script manuscripts of scientific subjects from the collection of the Scientific Library of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This body of sources, which was mostly collected in the second half of the 20^th century, has not yet been the subject of special research in the framework of Russian history. The author, moving away from the narrow-source and library approaches, makes an attempt to look at them as a reflection of the intellectual life of Muslims of the Ural-Volga region during the imperial period. Based on the systematization of manuscripts according to the thematic and genre principle (Grammar, Logic and Philosophy, Literature, History), the article traces the mechanisms of adaptation of the general Islamic classical heritage in the region, reveals the structure of teaching in local madrassas and models of its evolution. Special attention is paid to manuscripts created or rewritten in the Ural-Volga region. The conducted research makes a definite contribution to the study of the socio-cultural history of Russia. Its results demonstrate how traditional Muslim educational institutions lived and developed in the region, and how they, while remaining part of a large Islamic tradition, adapted to their existence in the Russian Empire.

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