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Novouzensk

a city; center of Novouzensk Raion, Saratov Oblast, RSFSR. Located on the left bank of the Bol’shoi Uzen’ River at the influx of the Chertanly River. Railroad station on the Krasnyi Kut-Aleksandrov Gai branch line. Novouzensk has an industrial combine, a creamery, and two brickyards, as well as a zooveterinary technicum. Novouzensk was founded in the 18th century and became a city in 1835.

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Frank, Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia: The Islamic World of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780-1910 (Leiden: Brill, 2001); see also Rozaliya Garipova, "The Protectors of Religion and Community: Traditionalist Muslim Scholars of the Volga-Ural Region at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century?

"Pillars of the nation": the making of a Russian Muslim intelligentsia and the Origins of Jadidism

Frank, Islamic Historiography and "Bulghar" Identity among the Tatars and Bashkirs of Russia (Leiden: Brill, 1998); Frank, Muslim Religious Institutions in Imper ial Russia: The Islamic World of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780-1910 (Leiden: Brill, 2001); Christian Noack, Muslimischer Nationalismus im russischen Reich: Nationsbildung und Nationalbewegung bei Tataren und Baschkiren, 1861-1917 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2000).

Transimperial Muslims, the modernizing state, and local politics in the late imperial volga-ural region

Frank, Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia: The Islamic World of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780-1910 (Leiden: Brill, 2001); Bobrovnikov, Musul'mane Severnogo Kavkaza; Michael Kemper, Sufis und Gelehrte in Tatarien und Baschkirien: Der islamische Diskurs unter russischer Herrschaft (Berlin: Klaus Schwartz, 1998); and Kemper, Herrschaft, Recht und Islam in Daghestan: Von den Khanaten und Gemeindebunden zum gihad-Staat (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2005); with Crews, For Prophet and Tsar; Geraci, Window on the East; Jersild, Orientalism and Empire; and Daniel Brower, Turkestan and the Fate of the Russian Empire (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003).

What is Asia to us? Scholarship on the Tsarist "East" since the 1990s

Frank, Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia: The Islamic Worm of Novouzensk District and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780-1910 (Leiden: Brill, 2001); V.

Lived orthodoxy and confessional diversity: the last decade on religion in modern Russia

Frank, Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia: The Islamic World of Novouzensk and the Kazakh Inner Horde, 1780-1910 (Leiden: Brill, 2001), 274-313; and Bruce G.

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