Allen J. Frank, Ph.D. (1994) in Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, has published widely on issues of religion and ethnic relations among the Muslims of the Volga-Ural region and Siberia.
'Frank's painstaking philological analysis provides an entirely
fresh basis for research on the indigenous historiography of the
Volga-Ural region. His study is an important revision of Western
research to date, as well as of the prevailing national
interpretations of history in the new republics of Tatarstan and
Bashorstostan. Furthermore, Frank sheds important new light on teh
self-image of Sufis and 'ulamā' under Russian rule, providing a
valuable new impetus for scientific research on Islam in the
Russian colonial context.'
Anke von Kügelgen, Journal of the American Oriental Society,
2000.
'This highly specialized, carefully argued, detailed, and
well-documented treatise illustrates the ultimate displacement of
Bulghar sacred Islamic identity by a nationalistic and ethnic
Bulghar identity.'
Charles C. Kolb, Religious Studies Review, 2001.
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