{"id":295,"date":"2026-02-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/?p=295"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:12:12","slug":"the-muslim-in-russian-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/2026\/02\/01\/the-muslim-in-russian-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"The Muslim in Russian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-09.04.12-1024x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-09.04.12-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-09.04.12-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-09.04.12-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-09.04.12-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1780\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-19-at-09.04.12.jpg 1234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(270deg,rgb(204,220,229) 0%,rgba(155,81,224,0) 100%)\">Empress Catherine II undertook her \u201cTaurian Voyage\u201d (1787) to visit Crimea and New Russia, two provinces that the Russian Empire had recently acquired from the Ottoman Turks in the settlement of the Russo-Turkish War (1768-74). Upon her arrival in Crimea, the Empress proclaimed it a \u201cfairy tale from <em>The Thousand and One Nights<\/em>.\u201d In referencing this famous collection of \u201cOriental\u201d fairy tales, Catherine drew on a long-standing habit in Russia of depicting their Muslim neighbors, and subjects as exotic characters from stories and fables \u2014 as Orientalized Others \u2014 and more often than not, enemies. This course will examine texts spanning more than a thousand years of Russian and Eurasian history, to examine the figure of the \u201cMuslim\u201d in the Russian imaginary. In so doing, we will gain a sense for the ever-changing relations between Christian and Muslim communities in Eurasia through the lens of their interactions in literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background:linear-gradient(270deg,rgb(204,220,229) 0%,rgba(155,81,224,0) 100%)\"> Offered Spring 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empress Catherine II undertook her \u201cTaurian Voyage\u201d (1787) to visit Crimea and New Russia, two provinces that the Russian Empire had recently acquired from the Ottoman Turks in the settlement of the Russo-Turkish War (1768-74). Upon her arrival in Crimea, the Empress proclaimed it a \u201cfairy tale from The Thousand and One Nights.\u201d In referencing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,32,27],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","tag-content-course","tag-russn-268","tag-spring-2026"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/russianstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}