Ismail Gasprinskijs "Russisches Muslimentum" (1881). Das russische Muslimentum: Gedanken, Anmerkungen und Beobachtungen. Ismail Bej Gasprinskij

Discussion of the Crimean Tatar educational reformer Ismail Gasprinskii's 1881 brochure "The Russian Muslimhood" (Russkoe musul'manstvo), followed by Kemper's German translation of the Russian-language booklet in the present volume.
Focus on Gasprinskii's effort to emphasize the links between the Muslims of Russia and the Russians (a "community of fate"); taking the anniversary Kulikovo Battle as the opportunity to remind the Russian government that Russia obtained a lot from the Tatars/Muslims, and that Russia should now pay back its debt enlightening the Muslims of the Empire; calling upon Russia's Muslims to obtain secular education; preparing the ground for the establishment of reformed schooling in the Tatar language, and of Muslim journalism in Russia. A founding text of Jadidism (Muslim cultural reformism), in some respects presaging Eurasianist thought.

Followed by Gasprinskii's 1881 Russian-language pamphlet in German translation.