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MUSLIM SAINTS’ CULT IN RELIGIOUS AND RITUAL TRADITION OF THE VOLGA-URAL KRYASHEN TATARS (THE XIX - THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY)
Iskhakov Radik Ravil'evich
Sh. Mardzhani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences in Kazan
Abstract. The article is devoted to studying the Kryashen Tatars’ (baptized Tatars’) pre-Christian religious-mythological conceptions and rites associated with the Muslim (Sufi) saints’ cult. By historical-ethnographical material the author discovers the specifics of Kryashen syncretic beliefs involving worshipping the ancestors and sacral places. The paper emphasizes the importance of this religious-ritual system of Kryashen traditional culture for the preservation of historical memory and the identity of the representatives of this ethno-confessional community.
Key words and phrases: культ мусульманских святых, межконфессиональные отношения в Волго-Уралье, дохристианские верования татар-кряшен, история татар, суфизм в России, народный ислам, Muslim saints’ cult, inter-confessional relations in the Volga-Ural region, the Kryashen Tatars’ pre-Christian beliefs, history of the Tatars, Sufism in Russia, people’s Islam
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