Considering Vernacular and Imperial Sources: New Perspectives to Research the Muslims of Russia

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Description

This roundtable looks at scholarly innovations to tell alternative histories of Russian the Muslims of Russia. With new sources coming into scholarly circulation, the narratives long dominated in the historiography of the Muslims of Russia was challenged and greatly diversified. Researchers bring these new sources - discovered in the state and private archives of the North Caucasus, the Volga-Urals region and Central Asia - into dialogue with the existing debates in the field, blurring the borders of ideological camps and existing binary approaches. With the new approaches and sources, both imperial and vernacular - the history of Russian Muslims can be now, in principle, be told from any place, be that an imperial metropolis or mountain village. The participants will discuss how new sources and frameworks have changed our understanding of the Muslim regions of Russia. The proposed roundtable will be methodologically oriented discussion, bringing together scholars working on the cases of different Muslim regions of Russia.

Sub Unit

• History: Russian and Eurasian, since 1924

Chair

• Kelly O'Neill, Harvard U

Roundtable Members

• Alfrid Kashafovich Bustanov, U of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

• Ian Wylie Campbell, UC Davis

• Adrienne Lynn Edgar, UC Santa Barbara

• Leone Musgrave, UT Austin

• Naira Sahakyan, U of Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Session Manager

• Mansur Gazimzyanov, U of Amsterdam (Netherlands)