The Image of Qayum Nasyri in the Year of the Great Victory: The Tatar Russian Scientist in the Soviet Scientifi c Tradition of the 1940s
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2025-21-4-51-70
Abstract
The article analyzes the peculiarities of the formation of the image of Qayum Nasyri in 1945, the year of victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). The image of the educator, associated with progressive Russian thought and the social movement in the second half of the 19th century, emerges in the materials of scientific sessions dedicated to the 120th anniversary of his birth, on the pages of the magazine “Soviet Edebiyaty” (“Soviet literature”), and in separate publications. This image generally corresponds to the concept of the history of the Tatar people, developed following the adoption of the Decree of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks “On the Status and Measures of Improving MassPolitical and Ideological Work of the Tatar Party Organization” on August 9, 1944. During the Great Patriotic War, Q. Nasyri was inducted into the pantheon of heroes recognized in Soviet Tatarstan, which was formed by scientists in line with the concept of the Russian people as an “elder brother”. In the year of the Great Victory, it is noted that Q. Nasyri was the first Tatar figure, who studied the activities of Russian rulers, from Vladimir I (d. 1015) to Peter I (1672–1725), describing their victories over external enemies.
About the Author
A. Yu. Khabutdinov
Kazan branch of the “Russian State University of Justice named after V. M. Lebedev”;
Moscow Islamic Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Aidar Yu. KHABUTDINOV, Dr. Sci. (Hist.), prof., professor; Head, Center for the Study of the History of Islam in Russia
7A, 2nd Azinskaya St., 420088, Kazan
12, Kirova Lane, 109382, Moscow
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For citations:
Khabutdinov A.Yu. The Image of Qayum Nasyri in the Year of the Great Victory: The Tatar Russian Scientist in the Soviet Scientifi c Tradition of the 1940s. Islam in the modern world. 2025;21(4):51-70. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2025-21-4-51-70
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