[Discussion] PUBL.- Prayers and Sermons in Russian-dominated Khiva and Tsarist Turkestan

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PUBL.- Prayers and Sermons in Russian-dominated Khiva and Tsarist Turkestan

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Praying for and against the Tsar. Prayers and Sermons in Russian-dominated
Khiva and Tsarist Turkestan
By Aftandil Erkinov
Berlin, (Klaus Schwarz Verlag) 2004, 112 p. EUR 10,20
Translated from the Russian by Isabel Foerster.
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Prayers and sermons, formal as well as informal, can serve as important
sources for public opinion, spontaneous as well as elicited, in pre-modern
societies. This paper offers some examples, taken from Khiva (Khorezm)
following the Russian conquest in 1873. Two prayers, one written probably
immediately after the conquest, the other during the Russo-Japanese war, 
are
published here in the original Turki and in English translation. Sermons,
and Friday sermons in particular, mention the name of the ruler, and of
course it was a problem how non-Muslim rulers should be treated in this
respect. Two versions of an officially drafted Friday sermon in favor of 
the
Tsar are published here in the original Turki and in English translation,
along with an essay by the journalist and politician N. Ostroumov (written
in 1930) found in in Tashkent archives in which he discusses the history 
and
significance of these sermons (in the original Russian and in English
translation).

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