Man on the minbar. The image of the Muslim leader in Tatar and Turkish literature (XIX-XX centuries)

The book explores the images of spiritual authorities (muftis, imam, sheikhs, mullahs, etc) in the Tatar and Turkish literature of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, in which the changes that occurred both in the public consciousness and in the artistic thinking of the Muslim Turks are relief. : Tatar nation, who lived in the territory of the Russian Empire, and Turkish, located in the space of the Ottoman Empire. The formation of the ideal of a spiritual leader in both literature was accompanied by a criticism of ignorance and moral prophets among individual representatives of spiritual figures and the assertion of ethical and aesthetic ideals about a person (al-Inta al-Kamil).
is addressed to the Turkologists and everyone who is interested in culture, the history of the Turkic peoples and Islam