The Muslim Individual in Imperial and Soviet Russia

Publications

Public Lectures

 

The Tatar Translation of the Qur’an by ‘Abd al-Bari Isaev. 14.11.2021. Ufa, Ikhlas Cultural Center

‘Abd al-Bari Isaev and his Personal Archive. 26.09.2021. Ufa, Russia

The Death Culture among Russia’s Muslims, 18th-20th Centuries. 29.11.2020. The Nekrasov Central Scientific Library, Moscow, Russia

 

Podcasts

  1. Nile Green & Alfrid Bustanov, “The Muslims of Russia: Europe’s Largest, Oldest and Least Known Muslim Minority.” Akbar’s Chamber – Experts Talk Islam (Feb 28th, 2021)
  2. Alfrid Bustanov, “The Private Life of Muslims,” Tozhe Rossiia 24.03.2020
  3. Love Letters, Epitaphs, and Big Data: A View on the History of Muslim Culture in Russia, Politvostok 19.10.2020
  4. Post-nation and Soviet Legacy, Kazan kainyi, 9.10.2019 

 

Academic Publications

 

Bustanov, A. K., & Usmanov, V. (Ed.) (2022). Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia: The Memoirs of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri. Leiden: Brill. (available in Open Access)

Bustanov, A. K. (2022). О перспективах оккультного поворота в российском исламоведении. Государство Религия Церковь в России и за Рубежом, 40(2), 218-258.

Bustanov, A. K. (2022). An Emotional History of Soviet Experience: On Muslim Eschatology and the Great Terror, 1920s-1930s. In A. Bouma, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Socialism in One Room: Studies in Honor of Erik van Ree (pp. 161-190). (Pegasus Oost-Europese Studies; Vol. 36). Pegasus.

Alfrid Bustanov, “A Space for the Subject: Tracing Garden Culture in Muslim Russia,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (forthcoming in 2022)

Alfrid Bustanov, “On Emotional Grounds Private Communication of Muslims in Late Imperial Russia,” Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques, vol. 73, no. 4 (2019), 655-682.

Alfrid Bustanov, Biblioteka Zainap Maksudovoi [The Library of Zainap Maksudova] (Moscow: Mardjani Publishing House, 2019).

Media coverage:

http://mardjanifoundation.tilda.ws/zainapmaksudova
https://www.business-gazeta.ru/article/453667
https://rt-online.ru/podvig-uchitelnitsy/
https://kazved.ru/news/culture/23-01-2020/semeynaya-biblioteka-zhdet-svoih-nauchnyh-issledovateley-5718116
http://rus.sptatar.com/1494-2/
https://realnoevremya.ru/galleries/3901
https://www.business-gazeta.ru/article/454818
https://www.business-gazeta.ru/article/453667

Reviews:

By Sebastian Cwiklinski in Islamology 10.2 (2020), 193-197.

By Flera Saifullina in Fanni Tatarstan 1.25 (2020), 162-166.

Daulatshah al-Ispijabi, Burhan al-dhakirin. Dokazatel’stvo dlia pominaiushikh, ed. by Alfrid Bustanov and Evgeniia Nikitenko (Moscow: Sadra, 2020).

Zainap Maksudova, Shakir Abilov, “Sulayman Saksini the Poet and His ‘Dastan-i mu’jizat’ (12th Century),” Fanni Tatarstan 1 (2020), 121-156.

Al’bert Fathi, “Poetic Pages of the Past Centuries,” Fanni Tatarstan 2 (2019), 149-166.
Alfrid Bustanov, “Shihab al-Din Mardjani and the Muslim Archive in Russia,” Islamology 9.1-2 (2019), 139-148.