Table of Contents

1. Russia’s Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions: Languages of Conversion, Competition and Convergence 2. Nationalism and Religion in the Discourse of Russia’s ‘Critical Experts of Islam’ 3. Daniil Sysoev: Mission and Martyrdom 4. The Language of Moderate Salafism in Eastern Tatarstan 5. Jihad as Passionarity: Said Buriatskii and Lev Gumilev 6. Between Salafism and Eurasianism: Geidar Dzhemal and the Global Islamic Revolution in Russia

About the Author

Alfrid K. Bustanov is TAIF Professor of Islamic Studies at the European University at St Petersburg, Russia. His recent publications include Soviet Orientalism and the Creation of Central Asian Nations (2015); and Islam po-russki: analiz sovremennoi islamskoi literatury v Rossii (with Michael Kemper, 2016).

Michael Kemper is Chair of Eastern European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His recent publications include Reassessing Orientalism: Interlocking Orientologies during the Cold War (with Artemy Kalinovsky, 2015); and The Piety of Learning: Islamic Studies in Honor of Stefan Reichmuth (with Ralf Elger, 2017).