![]() ![]() ![]() "ĭostoevsky becomes interested in the Chechan, Nourra, and his pious Islamic behaviour: "Throughout the course of his imprisonment, he never stole anything and committed no villainy. In Memoirs of the House of the Dead, Dostoevsky describes: "a group of Caucasian mountaineers - two Lezghians, a Chechen and three Tatars from Dagestan - almost all condemned for robbery, occupied the left side of the partition. It is probable that Dostoevsky read the Quran in the 1840s in Russian or in a French translation as it had been translated several times into Russian from French during the eighteenth century. ![]() In it, Dostoevsky recalls meeting a young Tatar convict named Ali: "I was teaching young Tcherkess (a prisoner convicted for being a bandit) to read Russian. How grateful he was!"Īnd it is through this meeting between Dostoevsky and Ali that Russians became aware of a new subject: Islam. ![]()
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