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From the birth of national identity among Russian Muslims to the ideas of national self-determination

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Общественные науки
Background. More than twenty ethnic groups practicing Islam live in Russia. Despite this, the state’s relationship with Muslims has a long and complex history.
V.G. Shepelev
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Debate on Reforms in Islam: R. Fahretdin vs Kh. Pahimov

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The research is devoted to study Russian Muslim scholars’ discussions on ways to reform the Muslim community in the beginning of the 20th century. The relevance of the topic relates to the need of comprehensive coverage of Russian Muslim thinkers’ views ...
Ilschat R. Nasyrov
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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The National Idea of Turkestani Jadids: Developing and Implementing

Türkiyat Mecmuası
The Jadidism Movement, which emerged within the borders of the Russian Empire, reached a certain degree in Turkestan, Volga-Ural, the Caucasus, and Crimea, and turned into an intellectual and social movement.
Zaynabidin Abdirashidov
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The Muslim Blog: Current Conversations on Islam from Russian Muslim Women on YouTube

CARAKA : Indonesia Journal of Communication
In the Russian Federation, there is a community of 20 million Muslims, making up roughly 13% of the country's population. This demographic presents a diverse minority, characterized by variations in ethnicity, language, and culture. Notably, the case of Russian Muslims stands out due to the significant generational shift observed within the community ...
Sabina Abdulaev, Narmina Abdulaev
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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