Muslim subjectivities in Russian history

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A researcher who studies the subjectivity of believers and religious people will have a number of unanswered questions. Through their work, the author has hoped to address the most prominent of them: the problem of sincerity, the relationship between external and internal subjectivity, the methodology of research of the subject, the multi-discursiveness of subjectivity, and, in many respects, the duality of the given (traditional) and the indefinite/unestablished (new) thought provoked by its study. Several definitions of the concept of “subjectivity” are also proposed by the author, and Muslim subjectivities are considered in the historical context of the period, and how they are represented and covered under a new form of historical research - the History of Muslim Subjectivities. The article ends with a brief review of the thematic themes on the subject, including: the Soviet view of Muslim childhood; the “prison experience” of Russian Muslims; female subjectivity; and Islamic rhetoric and discourse of modernity.

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Dinara Zamirovna Mardanova

Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences

Author for correspondence.
Email: dinara.mardanova@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3650-0133

Acting Head of Ya.G. Abdullina Department of the History of Religions and Social Thought., Sh. Marjani Institute of History

7А, Baturin Str., Kazan, 420111, Russia

Radik Rimovich Salikhov

Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences

Email: rsalih@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6380-6640

Dr. Habil. Hist., Director, Sh. Marjani Institute

7А, Baturin Str., Kazan, 420111, Russia

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