In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly
networks stood at the forefront of Russia's expansion into the
South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there
that the Tatars worked with Russian agents, established
settlements, and spread their own religious and intellectual cuture
that helped shaped their identity in the 19th and early 20th
centuries. Kazan Tatars profited economically from Russia's
commercial and military expansion to Muslim lands and began to
present themselves as leaders capable of bringing Islamic modernity
to the rest of Russia's Muslim population. Danielle Ross bridges
the history of Russia's imperial project with the history of
Russia's Muslims by exploring the Kazan Tatars as participants in
the construction of the Russian empire. Ross focuses on Muslim
clerical and commercial networks to reconstruct the ongoing
interaction among Russian imperial policy, nonstate actors, and
intellectual developments within Kazan's Muslim community and also
considers the evolving relationship with Central Asia, the Kazakh
steppe, and western China. Tatar Empire offers a more
Muslim-centered narrative of Russian empire building, making clear
the links between cultural reformism and Kazan Tatar participation
in the Russian eastward expansion.
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