 | Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy Kefeli shows how traditional education, with Sufi mystical components, helped to Islamize Finno-Ugric and Turkic peoples in the Kama-Volga countryside and set the stage for the development of modernist Islam in Russia. Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli is Senior Lecturer at Arizona State University. |
