Islamic Historiography and 'Bulghar' Identity among the Tatars and Bashkirs of Russia

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Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One. Islamic Historiography in the Volga-Ural Region to 1800

Chapter Two. The Volga-Ural 'Ulamā and the Russian State: 1552-1788

Chapter Three. The Tawārīkh-i Bulghāriyya of Husām ad-Dīn al-Bulghārī

1. The Work's Structure and Contents

2. Studies and Publications

3. The Dating of the Work's Composition

4. The Work's Author

5. The Narratives on Bulghar and their Sources

the Tawārīkh-i Bulghāriyya as a Shrine Catalog

the Khātima The Tawārīkh-i Bulghāriyya in its religious and political context

6. The Legacy of the the Tawārīkh-i Bulghāriyya among Volga Ural Muslims

Chapter Four. The Tārīkh Nāma-i Bulghār of Tāj ad-Dīn Yālchïghul ōghlī

1. The Work's Author

2. Yālchïghul ōghlī's works

3. Studies and Publications

4. Summary of the Work's Contents

5. Yālchïghul ōghlī's Sources

Tatar and Bashkir oral sources

Legends concerning Alexander the Great and Socrates

6. Bulghar Identity in its Bashkir Context

7. Shrine Catalogs closely related to the Tārīkh Nāma-yi Bulghār Kazan University MSS 1388T and 587T

The Tawārīkh of Walī Muḥammad Īshān

Chapter Five. Three Commentaries on the Tawārīkh-i Bulghāriyya of Ḥusām ad-Dīn al-Bulghārī

1. The Tawārīkh-i Bulghāriyya (Tawārīkh-i Husayniyya) of Mullā Ḥusayn Amīrkhān ōghlī (Amirkhanov)

2. The Tawārīkh-i Bulghāriyya yākī Taqrīb-i Ghārī of Mullā Muhammad 'Alī Chōqorī

3. Shihāb ad-Dīn Marjānī's Kashf al-Ghitā': an anti-Bulgharist critique of the Tawārīkh-i Bulghāriyya

Chapter Six. Bulgharism in the Twentieth Century 1. The Modernization of Bulgharist Historiography: three histories of Bulghar from the early twentieth century

the Bulghāriyya

the Bulghār Tārīkhī of 'Ārifullah Chōqorī

the Qïşqācha Bulghār Tārīkhī of 'Abd ar-Raḥmān Zubayrī

2. Insurgent Bulgharism: the Vaysī movement of 'Inān ad-Dīn b. Bahā' ad-Dīn Vaisov

3. Soviet and Post-Soviet ""Neo-Bulgharism

Bulghar identity in Soviet Tatar historiography

Tatar historians debate Bulghar identity

Bulgharism as a national movement and political ideology

The reemergence of the conversion narrative

Conclusion Appendix: A Note on Manuscripts

Bibliography

Abbreviations

Index

Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia