Description

[Programs for Muslim Elementary Schools. With a 6-year Study Course. Approved by 2 All-Russian Congress of Muslim Students]

The school program is supporting the local language and religion, which are taught from the first year on. Russian language, history and geography are only taught in the last years. Separate chapters in the book give basic directions to the teachers, what subjects should taught and which teaching methods applied in various classes.

The first All-Russian Congress of Muslim Students was organized in Kiev in 1913 as a secret meeting of “representatives of intellectual and political elites of the Muslim community of the Russian Empire who were seeking for opportunities to improve the situation of Muslims in the Empire” (Brilev D.V. On the Issue of the Secret Congress of Muslim Students in Kiev (1913–1915), Islamovedenie, 2018, 9, No. 2, p. 46). It was led by a Tatat Ulama Abdurasid Ibragimov.

The second congress was held in 1917, on the eve of the Russian Revolution. In the late 1917, Kazan became one of the major centers of the Russian Revolution, which the large local Muslim community embraced with mixed feelings.

We could not trace any institutional examples.