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High culture outside the City: introduction

Mardanova D.Z., Gaynanova M.R.

8–13 p.



The introductory article to the thematic issue “High Culture Outside the City: Intellectual Environment, Education and Entrepreneurship” provides a brief overview of articles covering the following topics: 1) the activities of the Izh-Buby madrasah, its place and role in the education system of Muslim Tatars in Russia; 2) entrepreneurial activity and problems of financing new schools; 3) the history of the women’s issue and 4) theological heritage.


Keywords: High culture, Muslim reformism, late 19th – early 20th centuries, Russia, village

For citation: Mardanova D.Z., Gaynanova M.R. Vysokaya kul’tura vne goroda: vvedenie [High culture outside the City: introduction]. Istoricheskaya etnologiya, 2022, vol. 7, no 1, pp. 8–13. (In Russian)


About the authors: Dinara Z. Mardanova, Research Fellow of the Department of History of Religions and Social Thought, Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (7A Baturin St., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); dinara.mardanova@gmail.com; Milyausha R. Gaynanova, Cand. Sc. (History), Senior Research Fellow of the Department of History of Religions and Social Thought, Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (7A Baturin St., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); mgaynanova@gmail.com


Received June 6, 2022   Accepted for publication June 14, 2022

Published Online July 19, 2022