Kirimli, Hakan (2004) Crimean Tatars, Nogays, and Scottish missionaries The story of katti Geray and other baptised descendants of the Crimean khans. Cahiers du Monde Russe, 45 (1-2). pp. 68-101.
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century a group of Scottish missionaries came to the Russian controlled parts of the northern Caucasus to proselytize the Nogays, Adyges, and other Muslims in the region. Although, by and large, their missionary work among the native population proved hardly successful, among the very few converts they managed to make was Kattı Geray, a young member of the Geray line, the former royal dynasty of the Crimean Khanate. This was the beginning of a very unusual carreer for a Geray, though a minor and an already ostracized one, who would devote himself to the spread of Christianity among his countrymen, the Crimean Tatars. For this purpose, Kattı Geray travelled to Scotland and, with the blessing of the Tsar Alexander I, he attempted to launch grandiose projects for missionary work in the Crimea. Though all these efforts failed eventually, Kattı Geray’s story remained to illuminate the exceptional relations between the Scots, Crimean Tatars, Nogays, Adyges, and Russians during the first half of the nineteenth century.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | A Church/mission history F Interreligious Dialogue and Witness > Islam > Christian-Muslim Dialogue G Christian traditions/Denominations > Reformed, Presbyterian |
| Divisions: | Former Soviet Union > Ukraine |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Aug 2023 15:51 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Aug 2023 15:51 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/2821 |
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