Kazan: Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, 2009 (568 p.) The reviewed book is the most comprehensive and systematic study to date devoted to the history of a unique religious national movement of the second half of the XIX - first quarter of the XX century, widely (and sometimes scandalously) known in the Volga region and Central Asia. We are talking about the "Vaisovtsy", whose name comes from the surname of the founder and eponym Baha' ad-din (Bagautdin) ibn Hamza ibn Vayis (Vaisov, 1810-1893). The movement is not quite correctly referred to in Russian-language documents as the "Vaisovsky God's Regiment of Old Believers-Muslims", but D. M. Usmanova deliberately included in the title of her monograph this unusual name, attached to the vaisovtsy and borrowed from the Orthodox dictionary ("sect/sectarianism", "Old Believers-Muslims", etc.), which is commented in the second part of the article. Introduction. From the comments and original documents published by the author for the first time related to the Wa'is movement, it follows that the Orthodox "sectarian" dictionary in the official letters of the followers of Baha' ad-din was not only the product of notes and articles by Russian experts, but was also readily used by the "sectarians"themselves. As D. M. Usma rightly believes- page 182such names were supported (in Russian translations of their proclamations, letters, and khutb) by the Vaisovites themselves as a self-presentation of the new-born "sectarians", which is understandable for the Russian-speaking audience, emphasizing their commitment to the primordial ("Old Believers") islam (p. 5-6). A significant number of papers have been published on the subject of the monograph, a brief analysis of which (for more than a hundred years) The author provides an overview of archived and published sources in the Introduction. In this series of publications, the works of D. M. Usmanova herself are also quite widely known (pp. 30-33). However, she abandoned ... Читать далее