title: PROJECTS OF REFORMING OF MANAGEMENT OF SPIRITUAL AFFAIRS OF THE CRIMEAN TATARS 1865–1869 YEARS
abstract: The article deals with the reasons of transformation of views of the administration of Novorossiya and Taurida governorates on reforming of management of Muslim spiritual affairs in the region.The main reasons are: (1) the status of the territory as an ‘internal’ province, where the government of Alexander II successfully implemented liberal reforms, (2) the project of of uniﬁ cation of spiritual aff airs management of the Crimean and Volga-Ural Tatars as SunniMuslims, equally belonging to the H
journal: Islam in the modern world