The meetings which I had with Professor Zakiev and his colleagues in the Academy of Sciences in Kazan and with Professor Halikov Alfred Hasanovich, then Professor of Russian History in the Faculty of History in the State University of Kazan, archaeologist and a respected authority on the great pre-Tatar culture of Bulghār and its peoples, which greatly strengthened my fascination for the Tatars and for their unusual contribution to the Islamic culture of north-eastern Europe. However, it was my visit to Kazan and Tatarstan, which was generously supported by the British Academy in London, which first introduced me to the Tatars and to Tatar culture.
It was over thirty years ago that my colleague at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Professor Bogdan Andrzejewski, a great authority on the Somali language and the culture of its peoples, drew my attention to the small Tatar community in Poland, which, together with their brothers in Belarus and Lithuania, offered to Western scholars a relatively new field of Islamic studies to the east of the Iron Curtain. Many of these mosques have been destroyed. It was drawn by Ali Smajkiewicz of Gdan´ sk about 1960. It shows the distribution of Muslim settlements in the region in the early twentieth century as well as the wooden mosques and major non-wooden mosques that were located there. It is a nineteenth-century muhir with talismanic drawings and prayers and praise of the Prophet.įigure 5 A Tatar manuscript from Rīga, no 28, A 222S (no 28 Austrumtautu/Oriental), pages 171 and 172įigure 6 A reproduced map that is to be found in the Tatar collection in the Białystok Museum. Islam and the contemporary religious scene in Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and PolandĪppendix Notes and references Bibliography Glossary Indexįigure 1 ‘The Island of Men’ and the ‘Island of the Amazon Women’ in the map of al-Idrīsī.įigure 3 This document is from the collection of the Lithuanian National Museum in Vilnius. The settlement of the Qipchāq Tatars and the Karaims in Belarus, Lithuania and Poland The expanding Eastern Empire of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ‘Iron would turn to wax, and water to steel sooner than we revoked our solemn word.’ (Gediminas) To Duke Gediminas and Duke Vytautus (Witold) the Great, a hero of the Lithuanian Tatars until today.
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Before this he was Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS and an associate Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London. Harry Norris is Professor Emeritus of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of London.
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