Конволют Кииковых: суфийское знание и письменная культура мусульман Урало-Поволжья в позднеимперской России

Oriental Studies. 2025. Т. 18. № 2. С. 393–409.

Tsaregorodtseva I. A., Саитбатталов И. Р., Манцерев А. А.

The study focuses on a rather unique source within the Muslim book culture of the Ural-Volga region. It is a convolute, primarily compiled and authored by the Kiyikovs, a father and son who were Sufi mentors of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya order, historiographers, and writers living in the north of the modern Republic of Bashkortostan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The article provides a general and archaeographic description of the manuscript, an analysis of its structure and content, as well as an overview of its key themes. The authors conclude that the compendium represents an important artifact of Muslim written and book culture and can be described as a unified source. It expands existing understanding of the book culture of Muslims in the Ural-Volga region during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly the tradition of transmitting Sufi knowledge during this period. The breadth and diversity of the Kiikovs’ cultural connections with the centers of Muslim scholarship in the Ottoman Empire, Hejaz, Central Asia, and India, reflected in the source, calls into question the widely accepted thesis in modern academic literature regarding the waning interest of Russian Muslims in Sufism during this period.

Keywords: ислам, Islam, рукописи, manuscripts, Sufism, суфизм, ислам в России, Islam in Russia, Урало-Поволжье, мусульманская культура, Muslim sources, Ural-Volga region, Muslim culture, мусульманские источники