Establishing Islam in Sweden: The First Tatar Community and Muslim Congregation and Their Sources

Sorgenfrei, Simon

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“…Osman Soukkan, a native of the Ottoman Empire, became a valued member of the Helsinki community. He left Finland for Sweden after the Second World War and participated in the founding of the first Islamic congregation in Sweden (Sorgenfrei 2020). The Azeri Mehmet Sadik was hired as a teacher by Ahsen Böre and published in Helsinki a magazine for the independence of Azerbaijan, called Yeni Turan, later Turan, with contributions from Ibrahim Arifulla, among others.…”

Section: Stereotyping and Self-defense In The Grand Duchymentioning

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Core Citizens, Imagined Nation: Historical Security Practices of the Majority and Strategies of the Minorities in Finland; An Introduction to the Issue

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Stadius

Stark

2021

Journal of Finnish Studies

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Scandinavism was a political idea in the nineteenth century that strived to unite the Scandinavian countries into one state. In Finland, Scandinavists were few in number but formed networks with Scandinavists in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, networks that have been largely ignored hitherto in Finnish historiography. This article focuses on the Finnish Scandinavist Emil von Qvanten, who proposed a Nordic federal state including Finland in 1855 in the pamphlet "Fennomania and Scandinavism" (von Qvanten 1855a). Moreover, his correspondence reveals an influential exiled Finnish patriot, who became a Nordic politician and a trusted person to the Swedish King Karl XV. Von Qvanten corresponded extensively with the Finnish architect Nestor Tallgren, European dissidents such as the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, the Russian socialist Alexandr Herzen, and Polish separatists like Josef Demontovicz and Walerian Kalinka, as well as Swedish and Danish politicians and Scandinavian intelligentsia. An alternative option of Finland having a Scandinavian political dimension during the age of autonomy will be discussed here with a focus on the letters that Nestor Tallgren wrote to Emil von Qvanten.

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Section: Stereotyping and Self-defense In The Grand Duchymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first Swedish imam was Osman Soukkan, who had arrived in Finland in the 1920s and become integrated into the Tatar community in Helsinki. At the time, there were around fifty Tatars living in Sweden (Al-Nadaf 2002, 88; on Tatars in Sweden, see Sorgenfrei 2020).…”

Section: The Redemptive War?mentioning

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Core Citizens, Imagined Nation: Historical Security Practices of the Majority and Strategies of the Minorities in Finland; An Introduction to the Issue

Roman

Stadius

Stark

2021

Journal of Finnish Studies

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Section: Stereotyping and Self-defense In The Grand Duchymentioning

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Between Religious Identity and National Identity? Pentecostal Finnish Roma in Lutheran Finland

Roman

2021

Journal of Finnish Studies

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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this article focuses on the present-day belonging of Finnish Roma to Pentecostalism. On the one hand, in what appears to be a ladder of social mobility, Pentecostalism provides Roma with the opportunity for enhanced participation in the nation-state, thus enhancing their relationship with the majority Finns. On the other hand, Lutheranism continues to be a symbol of Finnish belonging and a symbol of unity across the Nordic countries. Therefore, in the case of a historically marginalized group adopting a minority religious denomination, this article explores the complex relationship between community belonging, religious identity, and national engagement, and the ways in which these become entangled with one another. The aim is thus to introduce a contemporary perspective on how minorities themselves are actively engaged and reflect upon their role within their society, while also developing grassroots “strategies” of connecting with others (majority “Finns”), and with one another.

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Hospitality and Rejection: Peddlers and Host Communities in the Northern Baltic, 1850–1920

Sundelin

Wassholm

2022

Baltic Hospitality From the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

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This chapter examines the ambivalent relations between peddlers and hosts in the Northern Baltic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this period of modernization and growing consumption, peddlers played an important role for the distribution of consumer goods in the vast and sparsely populated region. Using the concepts of hospitality and securitization as analytical tools, the article focuses on the threats that peddlers were perceived to pose, the ambiguous relations between mobile traders and their sedentary hosts, and the ambivalent encounters around the goods that the peddlers carried. The sources consist of Finnish and Swedish newspapers, accessed through digital newspaper archives, and the responses to three ethnographic questionnaires. While both material types pose source critical challenges, the article illustrates how the conclusions that can be drawn on hospitality and rejection depend on which types of sources are studied and on the voice of which group in the host community they represent. The situational and relational character of hospitality is reflected in how the four groups of peddlers analyzed—knallar, “Rucksack Russians,” Eastern European Jews and Tatars—were received on a graded scale stretching from warm hospitality to extreme rejection.

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Establishing Islam in Sweden: The First Tatar Community and Muslim Congregation and Their Sources

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Core Citizens, Imagined Nation: Historical Security Practices of the Majority and Strategies of the Minorities in Finland; An Introduction to the Issue

Core Citizens, Imagined Nation: Historical Security Practices of the Majority and Strategies of the Minorities in Finland; An Introduction to the Issue

Between Religious Identity and National Identity? Pentecostal Finnish Roma in Lutheran Finland

Hospitality and Rejection: Peddlers and Host Communities in the Northern Baltic, 1850–1920

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