Alfrid Bustanov
Biographic Data
| ID | 910031 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfrid Bustanov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Bustanov |
| SIGNATURE | BUSTANOV A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6274-496X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Building an Archival Persona
This article analyses the uses of education certificates ( ijāza s) as a tool of self-expression by Russia’s Muslims in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While the transmission of ijāza s as such served as a means of constructing the ideal Muslim personality, manuscript evidence suggests that a selective approach to compiling ijāza miscellanies could successfully be employed in building one’s own archival persona – the way how an individual…
In Defiance of the Colonial Archives
Archives of Discrimination
The present article traces the history of multiple private and state archives in Daghestan. Such collections bear imprints of competition between particular individuals and factions. As we shall see, various parties exploited the cultural resources available to them in order to project their subjectivities onto the textual and material evidence. Shifts in cultural values and fashions, together with transformations in language use and an ongoing s…
The Occult Turn in Russian Islamic Studies
The article analyzes a series of manuscript texts on occult sciences in Islam which had been in circulation among the Muslims of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Despite the harsh critique on behalf of Muslim scholars and archival marginalization of related sources, the magical texts, figures, and practices associated with them were perceived as an integral part of Russia’s Islamic culture with a system of knowledge transmission. A multil…
Qul Sharīf and the Narratives of Ghazān
Zeki Validi Togan's (1890Togan's ( -1970) ) intellectual trajectory was similar to that of many contemporaries who were similarly born into a Muslim learned milieu. He received a madrasa education, over the course of which he developed a particular interest in manuscripts, and then embarked upon a career as an academic Orientalist.1 Upon his ultimate emigration to Turkey in 1925 after the establishment of the Bolshevik regime in Russia and years …
A Space for the Subject
This article examines the place occupied by garden culture in the mental landscape of Russia’s Muslims from the early nineteenth century to the late Socialist era. First taken from the Qur’an as a symbol of eternal salvation, the idea that gardens might embody both aesthetic and metaphysical values was further articulated by traveling missionaries with Sufi affiliations. This idea was afterwards absorbed by the generation of students graduated fr…
Speaking “Bukharan”
On Emotional Grounds
This article explores the practices of private communication of Muslims at the eclipse of the Russian empire. The correspondence of a young Kazan mullah with his family and friends lays the ground for an analysis of subjectivity at the intersection of literary models and personal experience. In personal writings, individuals selected from a repertoire of available tools for self-fashioning, be that the usage of notebooks, the Russian or Muslim ca…
Koran dlya sovetskikh grazhdan
2 0 1 8, 3 7
The Qur’an for Soviet Citizens
This article deals with the rhetoric of progress in the works of 'Abd al-Bari Isaev, a Muslim authority of the late Socialist era. These texts demonstrate a peculiar combination of a thorough study of the Qur'an and of the Prophetic traditions on the one hand, and a fascination with the success of Soviet cosmonautics and science on the other. Traditional Islamic subjects of Qur'an commentaries merged with a popular genre of Friday sermon and beca…
Jadidism as a Paradigm for Studying Islam in the Russian Empire
This article is devoted to problematizing the research focus of academic literature on Islamic reformers in the Russian empire. Studies of the late imperial period typically devote the most of their attention to modernization. Jadidists-reformers are considered as key protagonists and engines of history. A typical narrative about Jadidists includes several elements: political activity, reforms in education, the flourishing of journalism, the rene…
The Language of Moderate Salafism in Eastern Tatarstan
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian became the main linguistic vehicle of Islam in Russia. Muslims who still speak in their native languages (such as Tatar, Chechen and Daghestani) now have to face and compete with the powerful growth of ‘Islamic Russian’, a new sociolect of the Russian language, which is characterized by the integration of Islamic terminology, either in loanwords or with Russian substitutes. This article argues that diff…
Russia’s Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions
Islam and the Orthodox Church in contemporary Russia are usually studied in isolation from each other, and each in relation to the Kremlin; the latter demands the development of a home-grown and patriotic ‘religious traditionalism, as a bulwark against subversive ‘non-traditional’ imports. This volume breaks new ground by focusing on charismatic missionaries from both religions who bypass the hierarchies of their respective faith organizations an…
Dmitriy Yur’evich Arapov (1943–2015)
Arapov was one of Russia's major experts on the history of Islam in the Soviet Union
The Bulghar Region as a “Land of Ignorance”
Hagiographic sources from nineteenth-century Inner Russia and Kh v ārazm indicate the existence of a cluster of Muslims opposed to the state-supported Islamic institutions of the Russian Empire. Many Muslim scholars of the period did not accord the Volga-Ural region the status of an ‘abode of Islam,’ as they considered it to be a ‘land of ignorance.’ This paper examines the significance attached by Muslims of Inner Russia to the pious rhetoric of…
Genealogies of the Siberian Bukharans
This paper focuses on the analysis of historical stories associated with an elite family of Siberian Muslims. Particular attention is paid to verification of the original Arabic-language sources by comparing them with data obtained from population censuses and ethnographic interviews. The existence of genealogy among the West Siberian Tatars refers to the Bukharans who populated the region intensively in the 16th-19th centuries, developing into a…
Genealogy of the Siberian Bukharians
This study was intended as a verification of original Arabic sources (genealogies) by comparing them with census materials relating to Siberian Tatars of the 18th–19th centuries and with modern genealogies. The article presents a case study of the Imyaminovs – one of the famous families of Siberian Muslims – and traces the history of the Bukharians (Bukhara emigrants), who have settled in Siberia since the 16th century. In the 18th century they b…
Russia’s Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions
Islam and the Orthodox Church in contemporary Russia are usually studied in isolation from each other, and each in relation to the Kremlin; the latter demands the development of a home-grown and patriotic ‘religious traditionalism, as a bulwark against subversive ‘non-traditional’ imports. This volume breaks new ground by focusing on charismatic missionaries from both religions who bypass the hierarchies of their respective faith organizations an…
The Language of Moderate Salafism in Eastern Tatarstan
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian became the main linguistic vehicle of Islam in Russia. Muslims who still speak in their native languages (such as Tatar, Chechen and Daghestani) now have to face and compete with the powerful growth of ‘Islamic Russian’, a new sociolect of the Russian language, which is characterized by the integration of Islamic terminology, either in loanwords or with Russian substitutes. This article argues that diff…
The Bulghar Region as a “Land of Ignorance”
Hagiographic sources from nineteenth-century Inner Russia and Kh v ārazm indicate the existence of a cluster of Muslims opposed to the state-supported Islamic institutions of the Russian Empire. Many Muslim scholars of the period did not accord the Volga-Ural region the status of an ‘abode of Islam,’ as they considered it to be a ‘land of ignorance.’ This paper examines the significance attached by Muslims of Inner Russia to the pious rhetoric of…
Genealogy of the Siberian Bukharians
This study was intended as a verification of original Arabic sources (genealogies) by comparing them with census materials relating to Siberian Tatars of the 18th–19th centuries and with modern genealogies. The article presents a case study of the Imyaminovs – one of the famous families of Siberian Muslims – and traces the history of the Bukharians (Bukhara emigrants), who have settled in Siberia since the 16th century. In the 18th century they b…
Genealogies of the Siberian Bukharans
This paper focuses on the analysis of historical stories associated with an elite family of Siberian Muslims. Particular attention is paid to verification of the original Arabic-language sources by comparing them with data obtained from population censuses and ethnographic interviews. The existence of genealogy among the West Siberian Tatars refers to the Bukharans who populated the region intensively in the 16th-19th centuries, developing into a…
Genealogy of the Siberian Bukharians
This study was intended as a verification of original Arabic sources (genealogies) by comparing them with census materials relating to Siberian Tatars of the 18th–19th centuries and with modern genealogies. The article presents a case study of the Imyaminovs – one of the famous families of Siberian Muslims – and traces the history of the Bukharians (Bukhara emigrants), who have settled in Siberia since the 16th century. In the 18th century they b…
Genealogies of the Siberian Bukharans
This paper focuses on the analysis of historical stories associated with an elite family of Siberian Muslims. Particular attention is paid to verification of the original Arabic-language sources by comparing them with data obtained from population censuses and ethnographic interviews. The existence of genealogy among the West Siberian Tatars refers to the Bukharans who populated the region intensively in the 16th-19th centuries, developing into a…
Dmitriy Yur’evich Arapov (1943–2015)
Arapov was one of Russia's major experts on the history of Islam in the Soviet Union
The Bulghar Region as a “Land of Ignorance”
Hagiographic sources from nineteenth-century Inner Russia and Kh v ārazm indicate the existence of a cluster of Muslims opposed to the state-supported Islamic institutions of the Russian Empire. Many Muslim scholars of the period did not accord the Volga-Ural region the status of an ‘abode of Islam,’ as they considered it to be a ‘land of ignorance.’ This paper examines the significance attached by Muslims of Inner Russia to the pious rhetoric of…
Jadidism as a Paradigm for Studying Islam in the Russian Empire
This article is devoted to problematizing the research focus of academic literature on Islamic reformers in the Russian empire. Studies of the late imperial period typically devote the most of their attention to modernization. Jadidists-reformers are considered as key protagonists and engines of history. A typical narrative about Jadidists includes several elements: political activity, reforms in education, the flourishing of journalism, the rene…
The Language of Moderate Salafism in Eastern Tatarstan
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russian became the main linguistic vehicle of Islam in Russia. Muslims who still speak in their native languages (such as Tatar, Chechen and Daghestani) now have to face and compete with the powerful growth of ‘Islamic Russian’, a new sociolect of the Russian language, which is characterized by the integration of Islamic terminology, either in loanwords or with Russian substitutes. This article argues that diff…
Russia’s Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions
Islam and the Orthodox Church in contemporary Russia are usually studied in isolation from each other, and each in relation to the Kremlin; the latter demands the development of a home-grown and patriotic ‘religious traditionalism, as a bulwark against subversive ‘non-traditional’ imports. This volume breaks new ground by focusing on charismatic missionaries from both religions who bypass the hierarchies of their respective faith organizations an…
Koran dlya sovetskikh grazhdan
2 0 1 8, 3 7
The Qur’an for Soviet Citizens
This article deals with the rhetoric of progress in the works of 'Abd al-Bari Isaev, a Muslim authority of the late Socialist era. These texts demonstrate a peculiar combination of a thorough study of the Qur'an and of the Prophetic traditions on the one hand, and a fascination with the success of Soviet cosmonautics and science on the other. Traditional Islamic subjects of Qur'an commentaries merged with a popular genre of Friday sermon and beca…
Speaking “Bukharan”
On Emotional Grounds
This article explores the practices of private communication of Muslims at the eclipse of the Russian empire. The correspondence of a young Kazan mullah with his family and friends lays the ground for an analysis of subjectivity at the intersection of literary models and personal experience. In personal writings, individuals selected from a repertoire of available tools for self-fashioning, be that the usage of notebooks, the Russian or Muslim ca…
The Occult Turn in Russian Islamic Studies
The article analyzes a series of manuscript texts on occult sciences in Islam which had been in circulation among the Muslims of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Despite the harsh critique on behalf of Muslim scholars and archival marginalization of related sources, the magical texts, figures, and practices associated with them were perceived as an integral part of Russia’s Islamic culture with a system of knowledge transmission. A multil…
Qul Sharīf and the Narratives of Ghazān
Zeki Validi Togan's (1890Togan's ( -1970) ) intellectual trajectory was similar to that of many contemporaries who were similarly born into a Muslim learned milieu. He received a madrasa education, over the course of which he developed a particular interest in manuscripts, and then embarked upon a career as an academic Orientalist.1 Upon his ultimate emigration to Turkey in 1925 after the establishment of the Bolshevik regime in Russia and years …
A Space for the Subject
This article examines the place occupied by garden culture in the mental landscape of Russia’s Muslims from the early nineteenth century to the late Socialist era. First taken from the Qur’an as a symbol of eternal salvation, the idea that gardens might embody both aesthetic and metaphysical values was further articulated by traveling missionaries with Sufi affiliations. This idea was afterwards absorbed by the generation of students graduated fr…
Building an Archival Persona
This article analyses the uses of education certificates ( ijāza s) as a tool of self-expression by Russia’s Muslims in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While the transmission of ijāza s as such served as a means of constructing the ideal Muslim personality, manuscript evidence suggests that a selective approach to compiling ijāza miscellanies could successfully be employed in building one’s own archival persona – the way how an individual…
In Defiance of the Colonial Archives
Archives of Discrimination
The present article traces the history of multiple private and state archives in Daghestan. Such collections bear imprints of competition between particular individuals and factions. As we shall see, various parties exploited the cultural resources available to them in order to project their subjectivities onto the textual and material evidence. Shifts in cultural values and fashions, together with transformations in language use and an ongoing s…
Political science (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Islamic Studies and History (10 works) · History (9 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Eurasian Exchange Networks (7 works) · Islam (7 works)