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This book is a study of Arabia, the Qur’an, and Islam by Russian scholar Nikolaĭ Petrovich Ostroumov (1846‒1930). The main text is preceded by Ostroumov’s recollections of his experiences in the 1860s and 1870s as a student at the counter-Muslim department of the Kazan Seminary, where he studied Tartar and Arabic languages and Muslim culture. At the time, the government of the Kazan region, which was populated by Tartars and other Muslim ethnic groups, allowed the teaching of the Tartar language in schools to baptized Tartars and ...