NAGANAWA, Norihiro

Professor

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa,
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi,
Tokyo, 183-8534, Japan

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Research interests: Modern History of Central Eurasia, Entangled History of Russia and the Middle East in the Twentieth Century

Muslim World in Russia/ Russia in Muslim World

　I am a historian studying the Muslim communities in Russia, with a particular focus on the Tatars and Bashkirs in the eastern part of European Russia. My dissertation and first book addressed a vibrant Muslim civil society in the Volga-Urals region in the last decade of the Tsarist empire. I investigated Tatar-language public debates over the Islamic administration under the Orthodox Tsars, workings of local self-government, the draft to the army, and social welfare in the total war. Predicated upon this local knowledge, several projects are currently in progress. I am exploring the quest of local Muslims for Islamic knowledge, nationalism, and social reform/revolution in light of global circulation patterns in the 1880s to the 1920s, as well as the Hajj from the late imperial era to Putin’s Russia. I am also writing a biography of a Tatar revolutionary and Soviet diplomat from Bashkiria, Karim Abdraufovich Khakimov (1890-1938), whose trajectory encompasses the Volga-Urals, Turkestan, Bukhara, northern Iran, and the Red Sea. His life story as a Bolshevik interlocutor to the Muslim world illuminates the transformation of the fractured empire into an anti-imperialist empire. It also provides Russia’s lessons of engagement with the Muslim world amid global politics.

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• researchmap individual page
• Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Database individual page
• International Laboratory “Russia’s Regions in Historical Perspective” at National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

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