Islam in Russia

Ingushetia or Ingushetiya, officially the Republic of Ingushetia, is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. The republic is part of the North Caucasian Federal District, and shares land borders with the country of Georgia to its south; and borders the Russian republics of North Ossetia–Alania to its west and north and Chechnya to its east and northeast.

Turkic ethnic group, an indigenous people of Crimea

Bolghar or Bolgar (; Tatar: Болгар, بلغار, Bolğar; Chuvash: Аслă Пăлхар, Aslă Pălhar) was intermittently the capital of Volga Bulgaria from the 10th to the 13th centuries, along with Bilyar and Nur-Suvar. It was situated on the bank of the Volga River, about 30 km downstream from its confluence with the Kama River and some 130 km from modern Kazan in what is now Spassky District. To the west of it lies a small modern town known as Bolgar since 1991. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee inscribed Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex (ancient Bolghar hill fort) to the World Heri

overview of Islam in Russia

The Jadid movement or Jadidism was a Turco-Islamic modernist political, religious, and cultural movement in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th century. They normally referred to themselves by the Tatar terms Taraqqiparvarlar ("progressives"), Ziyalilar ("intellectuals"), or simply Yäşlär/Yoshlar ("youth"). The Jadid movement advocated for an Islamic social and cultural reformation through the revival of pristine Islamic beliefs and teachings, while simultaneously engaging with modernity. Jadids maintained that Muslim peoples in Tsarist Russia had entered a period of moral and s

Azerbaijani-Russian philosopher, politician, and writer (1947-2016)

Russian mufti and religious leader

Tatar Imam

girls' school in Baku, Russian empire

political party

muftiate

religious observance in Russia

military unit

Islamic scholar (1895–1964)

Islam religion in the Arctic circle

Islamist militant organization

The Agrizhan ( Agryzhanskie tatary) are primarily Muslim descendants of Tatar women and Indian merchants who operated in Astrakhan. The children of these Indo-Tatar unions were known as Agrizhan Tatars.

North Caucasian jihadist organization

Tatar imam (born 1963)

Islamist political entity in Russia

former terrorist organization in Russia