Islam in the Golden Horde and Djuchid Ulus States: Sources and Interpretation

Anikeeva T.A. (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, Moscow) Epic folklore as a source for the history of Islam and the Golden Horde.

Bustanov A.K. (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam) Taybugids, Kuchum and Central Asian ulems in sacral texts of Siberian Muslims.

Davletshin G.M. (Doctor of History, Kazan, Tatar State Humanitarian-Pedagogical University) About mad’habs within the Golden Horde.

Dobrovich Mihay (Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) The genealogy of the Jingisids in Islamic historiography.

Dode Z.V. (Doctor of History, Stavropol State University, the Department of Cultural Studies) Secular images in the Islamic space of medieval Zirihgeran.

Emirova Aishe (Simferopol, St. Petersburg) Krymchak djonks: writing traditions of the Jewish community in a Muslim environment.

Gatin M.S. (Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan) Golden Horde Islam in works of Bertold Shpuler.

Goncharov E.Ju. (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, Moscow) Islam and Power in the Golden Horde coin caulking.

Gorelik M.V. (Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow) Muslim father on the throne of the Orthodox (“From the papal tiara to the Kazan crown”).

Izmailov I.L. (Institute of history, AS RT, Kazan) Islam in Ulus Djuchi: the problem of correlation of written sources’ and archeology’s data.

Jurchenko A.G. (St. Petersburg) Golden Horde on European maps of XIV century. (Dictionary of symbols: cities)

Kramarovsky M.G. (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg) Muslims and Eastern Christians of Solkhat in the XIV century (on the problem of cultural interaction).

Pigarev E.M. (“Selitrennoe gorodische”, Astrakhan) The formation of Islam in the Golden Horde Lower Volga River Region.

Pochekaev R.Ju. (St. Petersburg) Religious factors of legitimation of power in the Turkic-Mongol states in XV-XVIII centuries.

Rahimzyanov B.R. (The Institute of History named after Sh. Mardjani AS RT, Kazan) Religious situation in the late Golden Horde states: the forced pragmatism of the Steppe.

Zaitsev I.V. (Mardjani Foundation, Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS) Haj from the Golden Horde and the Crimean Khanate.

Yevglevsky A.V. (Donetsk National University) Pagan-Muslim obsequial rite of nomads of the Golden Horde: The problem of determining the basic faith.

Description of the panel

In spite of existence of many special studies, Islam in the Golden Horde with its traditions, which are considered a priori to be key for understanding a history of Islam on the most part of the Russian territory, still remains an intriguing problem for us. If the civilizational identity of the Golden Horde is out of strong doubts, the identity of the Golden Horde Islam has never been in modern historians’ focus. 

Whatever the reasons of adoption of a new religion by Berke and later by Uzbek were (control over financial torrents of the Muslim transit trade or political independence from Karakorum by confessional delimitation), Islam organically replenished the tradition of forming the Eurasian supercultures, which is iteratively observed in the history of the steppe empires of the continent during the Early Middle Ages.

Some scholars believe that the Islamization became a new factor, accomplishing symbiosis of nomadic and sedentary empires on a spiritual level. It also added a missing essential metaphor to a political consolidation of the State.

A panel is aimed to discuss a wide range of questions: reasons, phases and forms of the Islamization of the Golden Horde, specifics of Islam in the Golden Horde and its legatee states (the Astrakhan Khanate, the Khanate of Kazan, the Crimean Khanate, Nogay Horde, Kasimov and medieval Kazakhstan), traditions of the Golden Horde Islam after a decay of the Empire and ways of the new Islamic communities forthcoming.

Special attention is to going to be paid to a majority of the written and archaeological sources on the history of Islam in the Golden Horde and Djuchid Ulus States. 

An interaction between Muslims and non-Muslims in the integrated state (for instance, Mongols and the medieval Russia) should be discussed separately.

Moderator of the section: I.V. Zaitsev (Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, Mardjani Foundation, Moscow)