UDK908(045) Religious Enlightenment and Education on the Mangystau Peninsula in the 19th–20th Centuries

Abstract

Abstract. The article examines the state of religious education on the Mangystau Peninsula within the framework of the policy of the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The main attention is paid to the long-standing traditional system of religious education in the region and the activities of Russian reform schools, opened in connection with the policy of Russian colonialism. 

           The article analyzes the measures of the tsarist authorities aimed at limiting and controlling Islam in the Kazakh lands, based on evidence from excerpts from archival documents, in particular from letters from the Transcaspian Regional Administration. Also, in this connection, the actions of the Russian Empire in Turkestan, the Orenburg province and the Inner Horde in the 80s of the XIX century, related to the anti-Islamic position of the Russian Empire, as well as activities related to religious education in the Transcaspian region, are considered. 

           As a result, the article will be based on statistical information on the number, condition and composition of students of mosques-madrasahs and Jewish schools of the Russian regime, which appeared on the Mangistau Peninsula at the end of the 19th century by district. As a result, the article will be based on statistical information on the number, condition and student composition of mosques-madrasahs and Jewish schools of the Soviet regime, which appeared on the Mangystau Peninsula at the end of the 19th century, by district and by Bolsheviks.

           In addition, the issue of pilgrimage in the Mangystau region, related to religious education, will be considered on this topic. All the data presented in the article clearly demonstrate the steps taken by the tsarist government to establish restrictions and control over religious issues on the Kazakh land.