Affiliation
Senior Research Fellow and Vice Chair, Institute of History, Kazan
Biography
Ilnur Minnullin is an historian of the Middle Volga region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and currently the Vice Chair of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Tatarstan, in Kazan. His candidate dissertation (2011) dealt with ‘The Policy of the Soviet State towards Muslim Scholars in Tatarstan in the 1920s–1930s’. The awardee of several international grants (notably from the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Berlin, and from FMSH, Paris, he participated in several European collaborative projects. He is currently completing a monograph on repressed Islam in the Middle Volga Region, and his previous publications include: ‘La Lutte contre les “Saints”: la Politique Soviétique à l’Égard des Pèlerinages Musulmans dans la Moyenne Volga, dans les années 1950 et 1960’ [Struggling against the ‘Saints’ : The Soviet Policy towards Muslim Pilgrimages in the Middle Volga Region, in the 1950s–60s], Slavica Occitania 36 (2013), pp. 159–76; and ‘Sufizm v Sovetskom Tatarstane: K Postanovke Problemy’ [Sufism in Soviet Tatarstan: The Problematic], Ekho vekov 2007/1, pp. 143–50 (with A. Minvaleev).
Publications related to the project’s theme
Ilnur Minnullin, ‘La Lutte contre les “Saints”: la Politique Soviétique à l’Égard des Pèlerinages Musulmans dans la Moyenne Volga, dans les années 1950 et 1960’ [Struggling against the ‘Saints’: The Soviet Policy towards Muslim Pilgrimages in the Middle Volga Region, in the 1950s–60s], Slavica Occitania 36 (2013), pp. 159–76;
Ilnur Minnullin, A. Minvaliev, ‘Sufizm v Sovetskom Tatarstane: K Postanovke Problemy’ [Sufism in Soviet Tatarstan: The Problematic], Ekho vekov 2007/1, pp. 143–50 (with A. Minvaleev).
