History Of Development Of Islam In Russia

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Muslims in Russia is the second largest religion after Christianity Orthodox, which is about 21-28 million people or 15-20 per cent of the approximately 142 million inhabitants. Muslim Life in Russia is now also becoming better than the old Communists. For the first time in Russian history, the leader of Russia (Vladimir Putin) to enter the Muslim ministers in his cabinet and acknowledge the existence of Russian Muslims.

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The first Muslims in the territory of Russia is the latest in Daghestani community (Derbent region) after pentaklukan Arabs (8th century). The first Muslim country is the Volga Bulgaria in the year 922. The Tatars inherited the religion of Islam from the country. Then most of the Turks of Europe and the Caucasus is also a follower of Islam. Islam in Russia has had a long kewujudan, widen to as early as the conquest of the Middle Volga region in the 16th century, which brought the Tatars and Turks in respect of the Middle Volga in the Russian land. In the 18th century and the 19, conquered Russia in the North Caucasus Muslims bring people from this region - Dagestan, Chechens, Circassia, Ingush, and others into the Russian state.

Kievan Rus also had the chance to embrace Islam from the missionaries Volga Bulgaria, but the East Slavic peoples to accept Christianity.

The majority of Muslims in Russia following the teachings of Sunni Islam. In some areas, especially in Chechnya, there was a tradition of Sufism, an Islamic bermistik variations which confirms the search path of an individual in union with God. Sufi ritual, Chechens be carried out to provide a strong spirit to resist the pressure of foreigners, has become a legend among the Russian forces against Chechens in the days of the Tsar. Azeri people also on the history and are still followers of Shia Islam, when they separate republic of the Soviet Union, many Azeris who came to Russia to find work.

The first printed Koran published in Kazan, Russia in 1801. One more phenomenon that happens is Wäisi movement.

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While total expulsion as in other Christian nations such as Spain, Portugal and Sicily was not feasible to achieve a homogenous Russian Orthodox population, other policies such as land grants and the promotion of migration by other Russian and non-Muslim populations into Muslim lands displaced many Muslims, making them minorities in places such as some parts of the South Ural region to other parts such as the Ottoman Turkey, and almost annihilating the Circassians, Crimean Tatars, and various Muslims of the Caucasus. The Russian army rounded up people, driving Muslims from their villages to ports on the Black Sea, where they awaited ships provided by the neighboring Ottoman Empire. The explicit Russian goal was to expel the groups in question from their lands. They were given a choice as to where to be resettled: in the Ottoman Empire or in Russia far from their old lands. Only a small percentage (the numbers are unknown) accepted resettlement within the Russian Empire. The trend of Russification has continued at different paces in the rest of Tsarist and Soviet periods, so that today there are more Tatars living outside the Republic of Tatarstan than inside it.

Under Communist rule, Islam was oppressed and suppressed, as was any other religion. Many mosques—much like their Christian counterparts, the churches—were closed at that time. For example, the Marcani mosque was the only acting mosque in Kazan at that time. During Stalin's reign, Crimean Tatar Muslims were victims of mass deportation. The deportation began on 17 May 1944 in all Crimean inhabited localities. More than 32,000 NKVD troops participated in this action. 193,865 Crimean Tatars were deported, 151,136 of them to Uzbek SSR, 8,597 to Mari ASSR, 4,286 to Kazakh SSR, the rest 29,846 to the various oblasts of RSFSR.

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There was much evidence of official conciliation toward Islam in Russia in the 1990s. The number of Muslims allowed to make pilgrimages to Mecca increased sharply after the embargo of the Soviet era ended in 1990. In 1995 the newly established Union of Muslims of Russia, led by Imam Khatyb Mukaddas of Tatarstan, began organizing a movement aimed at improving inter-ethnic understanding and ending Russians' lingering misconception of Islam. The Union of Muslims of Russia is the direct successor to the pre-World War I Union of Muslims, which had its own faction in the Russian Duma. The post-Communist union formed a political party, the Nur All-Russia Muslim Public Movement, which acts in close coordination with Muslim imams to defend the political, economic, and cultural rights of Muslims and other minorities. The Islamic Cultural Center of Russia, which includes a madrassa (religious school), opened in Moscow in 1991. In the 1990s, the number of Islamic publications has increased. Among them are two magazines in Russian, "Эхо Кавказа" (transliteration: Ekho Kavkaza) and "Исламский вестник" (Islamsky Vestnik), and the Russian-language newspaper "Исламские новости" (Islamskiye Novosti), which is published in Makhachkala, Dagestan.