The Promiscuous Life of a Genre for the Dead: The Marthiya as an Instrument of Community Construction in Muslim Russia

Abstract This article explores how the Islamic elegiac genre of marthiya can shed new light on the social and cultural history of the Muslims of Russia’s Volga-Ural region in the late imperial period (1870s-1917). The marthiyas enjoyed great popularity across geographical, ethnic, and factional line...

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Main Author: Ross, Danielle ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient
Year: 2021, Volume: 64, Issue: 4, Pages: 343-376
Further subjects:B Islam
B Tatar
B marthiya
B Jadid
B Volga-Ural
B Russia
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