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The Tatars are Sunni Muslims who belong to the Hanafite branch. However, they have no version of the Qu'ran in their language. The Muslim faith includes observing Ramadan, a month of ritual fasting. During Ramadan, they are praying for Islam to fill the earth. Most of Tatars in Turkey worship in Turkish at the local community mosques.
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The Tatars are Sunni Muslims who belong to the Hanafite branch. However, they have no version of the Qu'ran in their language. The Muslim faith includes observing Ramadan, a month of ritual fasting. During Ramadan, they are praying for Islam to fill the earth. They ... make an annual pilgrimage to Mecca, (the holy city of Islam), whenever possible.
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The Tatars had their first flirtation with Islam during the reign of the Chinggisid Berkei Khan (r. 1257-1267). However, Islam was not widely established until after the accession of Ozbeg (1313-1340). Fourteenth century travellers found Islamic communities among Tatars. The acceptance of Islam, perhaps still incomplete at the end of the 14th century, added an additional dimension and points of contention to tatar political life. It enhanced the existing competition, alternating with open conflict, with Muscovy; it expanded the ethnic and linguistic affinities with the Ottoman dynasty into the realm of formal religion.
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Tatars have a long, if interrupted, history of resisting both imperial Russian and Soviet domination. During the liberalizing Kruschev years, Tatars mounted moderate protests (PROT60X = 3). Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, protest peaked in the early 1990s (PROT90X = 4) but has since moderated (PROT01 = 2; PROT02 = 3, PROT03 = 2). The protests in 2002 related to two incidents. The first involved some Tatar women picketing municipal buildings demanding the right to have passport photos taken with headscarves; the second related to the anniversary of a 1552 attack on Tatarstan by Czarist forces: Tatars gathered with anti-Russian placards and speeches compared current policies of Russia to those of Ivan the Terrible. Rebellion by the Tatar remains non-existent (REB01-03 = 0).
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Keräşen Tatars live all over Tatarstan. Now they tend to be assimilated among Russians, Chuvash and Tatars with Sunni Muslim self-identification. Eighty years of atheistic Soviet rule made Tatars of both confessions not as religious as they were. As such, differences between Tatars and Keräşen Tatars now is only that Keräşens have Russian names.
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The Tatars invaded a Kievan Rus' that was being destroyed by internal warfare. The first attack against the Russians occurred in 1223. The Tatars swiftly defeated the combined forces of Russians and Polovtsy but then left, not to return for another fourteen years. At the time, the Tatars had been on a return trip from conquests in northern China and central Asia. In 1236 the Tatars began their attack on Russia in earnest. From 1236-1238 the Tatars gained many important Russian grounds, including Novgorod.
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