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Marat Gibatdinov

History Institute

Tatarstan Academy of sciences

Kazan, Tatarstan

The image of Islam in Tatar and Russian history Textbooks

*

Before the 1917 Russian Revolution, Tatars had their own system of education,

independent from the official school system of the Russian empire. Traditional Tatar

schools (

Mekteb

and

Medrese

) did not receive state support but depended completely on

the financial means of rich Tatar merchants and businessmen. Tatar intellectuals created

their own educational programs, combining Muslim religious education with secular

education, which also included a history curriculum. As a rule, Tatar scholars acted

independently from the state and also published their own history textbooks. Tatar

schools taught the history of Islam together with World history, the history of Russia

(state history) and Turkic-Tatar history (ethnic history).

Certainly, in the Tatar textbooks of this time, Islam was pictured with extreme

sympathy. One can say that, around 1900, Tatar textbooks represented “an Islamic

view” on history. Tatar textbooks always begin with the phrase «Bismillah ar-rahmaan

ar-raheem» ("In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful"). The name of

Muhammad accompanied with the phrase (“peace and blessings of Allah be upon

him”). All historic dates are shown in Muslim (Hijra) and in Christian (Julian) calendar.

“First of all I have started a history of Siberia and have already finished the first part. I

intend to write other books of Turkic history. Maybe Allah blesses my work!”

(HADI

ATLASI. The history of Siberia, 1911)

“

We have written this book not for the thanks of the future generations... but in hope

that our fathers and grandfathers having got in paradise can read it. There may be

Allah will accept a prayers of our broken soul and will give, what we hope

”.

(

RIZAEDDIN FAHREDDIN. Bulgar and Kazan Turks).

The first professional Tatar historians were Muslim clerics (

Imam, Mullah

)

(Sh.Mardzhani, H.Atlasi) even moreover the

Mufti

(R.Fahretdin). They received

Medrese

education. Although they accepted the modern concepts of European and

Russian historiography, Tatar authors of textbooks perceived these through the prism of

Muslim cultural tradition.

“Russian annals, certainly, accuse of all troubles only Tatars, as repeatedly warns cadi

RIZAEDDIN: "Russian historical writings need to be studied very closely and

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Paper presented in the International Conference “The Muslim World through the Lens of European

Textbooks” Organized by the Georg-Eckert Institute

for International Textbook Research.

Braunschweig, Germany.

20.02.2006.