VOL. 6 No. 1 2019 GOD. 6 BR. 1 2019. VOLUME 6 GODINA 6 NUMBER 1 BROJ 1 2019 2019. Contents Članci i rasprave / ArticlesSadržaj ............................................................................. | 5 Introduction 7 .................................................................................................................. 11 In Search of ‘Traditional Islam’ in Tatarstan: Between Journal of Leila Almazova and Azat Akhunov National Project and Universalist Theories ................................................. Interdisciplinary Studies VOLUME 6 NUMBER 1 2019 47 Official Discourse on Islam and Islamic Discourse Sofya Ragozina in Contemporary Russia ....................................................................................... 65 Časopis za Renat Bekkin Časopis za interdisciplinarne studije Časopis za The Renovationist Movement in Contemporary Russian Islam .......... Studies Journal of Interdisciplinary interdisciplinarne studije GODINA 6 BROJ 1 2019. 91 ‘Traditional Islam’ in the discourse of religious associations, Zilya Khabibullina ethnic organisations and government structures in Bashkortostan ........ 117 Elmira Muratova ‘Traditional Islam’ in Crimean Tatar discourse and politics ............... 137 ISSN 2303-6966 Uputstva autorima ................................................................................................ 141 Instructions for Authors ..................................................................................... 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Č�lanci i rasprave / Articles 7 Časopis za interdisciplinarne studije 6:1 (2019), 7-10 Renat Bekkin Introduction In recent years, the concept of traditional Islam has attracted attention of re- searchers both in Russia and beyond. Individual and collective articles, including conference proceedings were published on this topic. A serious drawback of some of the works is excessive politicization of discourse, as well as that authors seem to have only superficial acquaintance with sources both in the languages of the so- called Muslim peoples of Russia and in Russian. The first problem is inherent mainly in the works of Russian authors, the second one in publications by au- thors from the West. Nevertheless, even those works that do not fully meet the scholarly criteria or fail to be based on reliable sources are important per se as they indicate public interest in such a complex and multifaceted phenomenon as traditional Islam. Thanks to a number of objective and subjective factors the concept of traditional Islam, albeit an artificial construct, has become an important element, without which it is difficult to imagine the portrait of Islam in modern Russia. A few years ago, I came up with an idea to put together a book that would examine both the theoretical aspects of traditional Islam and individual cases from different regions of Russia with a significant Muslim population. Eventual- ly, with the assistance from the Center for Advanced Studies in Sarajevo, an edit- ed volume “The concept of ‘Traditional Islam’ in modern Islamic discourse in Russia” was prepared, which is due to be published soon. This issue of Context journal presents selected articles from the edited vol- ume. Before giving a brief description of the articles included in the issue, a few words should be said about the authors who collaborated in this work. The authors are representatives of various Russian schools of historical and Oriental studies. While sociologists and representatives of other social sciences have had a significant influence on research by Western historians and Orientalists for 8 Context 6:1 (2019), 7-10 more than a decade, this is not the case for Russian scholars (except some staff at certain research centres in Moscow and St. Petersburg). I am not inclined to give this circumstance either a positive or a negative evaluation but do consider it my duty to note it and its significance for the reader. My experience working on the edited volume has shown that the collaboration of authors from different academic backgrounds can be positive both for a book as a whole and for the individual arti- cles in the journal. Another important point to note is that the authors of some of the articles are involved in the subject matter discussed in this issue of Context in various ways. Some are both students and subjects of the discourses in question at the same time, which is to say they are both professional researchers of and active participants in Islamic discourse in Russia. These significant differences between the authors are not, in my opinion, a disadvantage. In fact, they have turned out to be a significant advantage for this special issue of the journal. The journal opens with an article by Leila Almazova and