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Madrasa Reform as a Secularizing Process: A View from the Late Russian Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2011

Mustafa Tuna*
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Duke University

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What is Islamic about reform among Muslims and what is not? How can we differentiate reform within an Islamic paradigm and a paradigmatic shift from the Islamic tradition to something else in a Muslim community? How do we establish the connection between reform as an intellectual or scholarly project and the translation of that project into social reality (or, in some cases, the absence of such a translation)? This article addresses these questions in the context of the Volga-Ural region in the late Russian Empire, where reformist Muslims attempted to reform existing Islamic educational institutions, particularly the religious seminaries called “madrasas,” as a means to modernize the region's Muslim communities. Educational reform initiatives among Volga-Ural Muslims originated within the framework of Muslim networks and institutions. Yet, especially after Russia's Revolution of 1905, reform in a number of prominent madrasas came to be characterized by various non-religious and at times even anti-religious influences emerging from the globalization of Western European modernity. Consequently, in these madrasas, education and the overall student experience turned into a secularizing process, and Islam as a religious system lost its weight and appeal for many students, who then engaged in a reform movement that evolved beyond an Islamic paradigm.

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51 Märdanov, Minnullin, and Räximov, Bertugan Bubıylar; and Makhmutova, Lish tebe, 35.

52 In fact, one of the reformist scholars, Musâ Cârullah Bigiyef (1870–1949), bitterly complained about the neglect of Islamic sciences in the reformed madrasas. In, El-Lüzumiyyat Tercümesi (Kazan: n.p., 1907), 3, quoted in Kanlıdere, Ahmet, Kadimle Cedit Arasında Musa Cârullah(İstanbul: Dergâh Yayınları, 2005)Google Scholar, 189.

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55 For the Ufa/Orenburg Tatar Teachers' School, see NART, f. 92, op. 1, d. 18999, pp. 1–16ob; and Tuna, “Imperial Russia's Muslims,” 190–91.

56 Räximkulova and Xämidullin, “Xüsäyniyä Mädräsäse,” 76, 91–93, 99–105; Fahreddin, Ahmed Bay, 41–43; NART, f. 142, op. 1, d. 307, p. 34, printed in Gorokhova, Kazanskaia, 194. Also see Räximov, “Galiyä Mädräsäse,” 125–26.

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61 See Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü, “Transformation of the Ottoman Intelligentsia and the Idea of Science,” Academia de Stiiente Sociale Politice a Republicii Socialiste Romania 24, 2 (1987): 16Google Scholar; Burçak, “Science.”

62 Some of the reformed madrasa students were involved in the publication of el-Islâh and Tañ Yuldızı, two periodicals with a socialist revolutionary leaning. For an example of debates about various nationalisms, see İbrahimof, Ğâlimcan, “Biz Tatarmiz,” Şûra, 15 Apr. 1911: 236–38Google Scholar; Türkoğlu, “Biz Türkmiz,” Şûra, 15 Apr. 1911: 238–41; 1 Jan. 1912: 19–21; 15 Jan. 1912: 55–56; 1 Feb. 1912: 79–80.

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64 Ämirxan, “Muxammädiyä Mädräsäse,” 22–24.

65 Battal-Taymas, Kazanlı Türk Meşhurlarından, 20–25; Yusupov, Galimdzhan Barudi, 53–63.

66 Battal-Taymas, Kazanlı Türk Meşhurlarından, 23–26; Yusupov, Galimdzhan Barudi, 39; Urmançı, Baqi, “Çıksa Mağripten Koyaş” in Mähdiev, Röstäm, ed., Mädräsälärdä Kitap Kiştäse (Kazan: Tatarstan Kitap Näşriyatı, 1992), 37Google Scholar. İrfan Gündüz relates Barudî's Sufi credentials to Ahmed Ziyaüddin Gümüşhânevî through Zeynullah Rasûlî. Gündüz, Gümüşhânevî, 157–58.

67 Märdanov, Minnullin, and Räximov, Bertugan Bubıylar, 46, 177–79; Makhmutova, Lish tebe, 180, 186–89.

68 Märdanov, Minnullin, and Räximov, Bertugan Bubıylar, 50–51, 137–38; Makhmutova, Lish tebe, 93, 185.

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72 The eminent Tatar historian Mirkasım Usmanov describes the idealization of enlightenment and progress in this period as a “cult.” See Usmanov, M[irkasım]. A., “O triumfe i tragedii idei Gasprinskogo,” his introduction to the reprint of Ismail Gasprinskii, Rossiia i Vostok (Kazan: Tatarskoe Knizhnoe Izdatel'stvo, 1993 [1881]), 4Google Scholar.

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74 Mähdiev, Röstäm, ed., Mädräsälärdä Kitap Kiştäse (Kazan: Tatarstan Kitap Näşriyatı, 1992)Google Scholar. This volume provides a good but not comprehensive list of the most important reformed madrasas, and includes the Muhammadiya, Bubi, Hüseyniye, Ğâliye, and İsterlibaş madrasas. For estimates of student populations in some of the reformed madrasas, see Tuqayef, Tarih-i İsterlibaş; Väliyev, “Sibir Mädräsäse,” 187; Ämirxan, “Muxammädiyä Mädräsäse,” 21; Räximov, “Galiyä Mädräsäse”; and Tuna, “Imperial Russia's Muslims,” 218–20.

75 Although he is writing about a different historical context, Adeeb Khalid also draws our attention to the change of attitudes about reform between generations, in Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform, 80–113.

76 This was generally not the case for the graduates of reformed madrasas in India, the Ottoman Empire, or Egypt. See Zaman, “Religious Education,” 308–9.

77 Räximov, “Galiyä Mädräsäse.”

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89 See Ascher, Abraham, The Revolution of 1905: Authority Restored (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992)Google Scholar.

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91 See NART, f. 41, op. 11, d. 8; Geraci, Robert, Window on the East: National and Imperial Indentities in Late Imperial Russia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), 186, 282–83Google Scholar; Tuna, “Imperial Russia's Muslims,” 317–50.

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95 Räximkulova and Xämidullin, “Xüsäyniyä Mädräsäse,” 113–14.

96 For the merger of modernity and the West in Islamic studies in general, see Lawrence, “Modernity,” 248.

97 Adeeb Khalid makes an excellent case for the wisdom of paying attention to local historical developments in the study of Muslim communities as opposed to essentializing approaches, in Khalid, Adeeb, Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 118Google Scholar.

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