2016. Vol. 4, no. 4. Sayfetdinova E.G.

2016. Vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 907-910

DOI: 10.22378/2313-6197.2016-4-4.907-910

 

ABOUT THE BOOK “HISTORY OF THE TATARS OF THE WESTERN
CISURALIC REGION”

E.G. Sayfetdinova
Sh. Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
Kazan 420014, Russian Federation
E-mail: аdulya2@yandex.ru

A collective monograph “History of the Tatars of the Western Cisuralic Region. Vol. I. The Nomads of the Great Steppe in the Cisuralic Region. Medieval Tatar States” [1] has been published by Sh.Marjani Institute of History (Kazan, 2016). The volume is dedicated to the medieval period and ends with the fall of the Kazan Khanate. The monograph has been prepared under the supervision of Doctor of Historical Studies, R.S. Khakimov. Editorial board of the monograph consists of leading scholars from academic centers in Russia and abroad. The book is divided into 4 chapters. The first chapter talks about the history of ancient nomads in the Cisuralic region. The second chapter examines the Volga-Kama Bulgaria and political unification of the Turkic nomads. The third chapter is dedicated to the formation of the Golden Horde state and the history of the formation of the Tatar people. The final fourth chapter discusses the Tatar khanates (Kazan and Siberian yurts, the Nogai Horde). An appendix including 55 narrative source is an important part of the collective monograph “History of the Tatars of the Cisuralic Region”. The authors of the first volume have not only succeeded to considerably fill the lacuna of historical knowledge about the Cisuralic Tatars, but also largely revise existing ideas about ethnogenesis of other Turko-Tatar and Finno-Ugric peoples in the region. This work does not provide all the answers. However, the important thing is that the authors of the monograph have succeeded to present new problems and outline prospects for further research. In the future, it is necessary to continue to study the process of ethnic migrations, which began in the Cisuralic region in the middle of the 16th century as well as the problems linked to the inclusion of these communities into the Russian state and other issues related to the history of the Cisuralic Tatars.

Keywords: Cisuralic region, Golden Horde, nomads, Tatar people, Tatar khanates, written sources.

For citation: Sayfetdinova E.G. About the Book “History of the Tatars of the Western Cisuralic Region”. Golden Horde Review. 2016. Vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 907–910. DOI: 10.22378/2313-6197.2016-4-4.907-910

REFERENCES

  1. Istoriya tatar Zapadnogo Priural’ya. Vol. I. Kochevniki Velikoy stepi v Priural’e. Tatarskie srednevekovye gosudarstva. Kollektivnaya monografiya [History of the Tatars of the Western Cisuralic Region. The Nomads of the Great Steppe in the Cisuralic Region. Medieval Tatar States. Collective monograph]. Kazan, Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Publ., 2016. 464 p. + 4 p. of colored inserts. (In Russian)

About the author: Elmira G. Sayfetdinova – Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Research Fellow, Usmanov Center for Research on the Golden Horde and Tatar Khanates, Sh.Marjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (5 entrance, Kremlin, Kazan 420014, Russian Federation). E-mail: аdulya2@yandex.ru

Received October 3, 2016
Accepted for publication November 30, 2016
Published online December 20, 2016