High culture outside the City: introduction

Abstract

The introductory article to the thematic issue “High Culture Outside the City: Intellectual Environment, Education and Entrepreneurship” provides a brief overview of articles covering the following topics: 1) the activities of the Izh-Buby madrasah, its place and role in the education system of Muslim Tatars in Russia; 2) entrepreneurial activity and problems of financing new schools; 3) the history of the women’s issue and 4) theological heritage.

Keywords

• high culture
• muslim reformism
• late 19th – early 20th centuries
• russia
• village