![]() ![]() Activity of missionaries and their descendants generated the transformation of traditional culture associated with the formation of ethnic culture. The development of religious identity hastened a process, which formed the Kazakh ethnicity. The spread of Islam got underway a mechanism for internal and external consolidation processes. Their way of life and a social cachet infl uences over neophytes. No one family event didn`t happen without them: from the name nomination, rite of genital mutilation, the Muslim wedding rite – Neka, to realization of kurmaldyk and funeral rites. They have seen the reason to live in advocacy of Islam and its introduction to Kazakh community and have taught them the Arabic script, Sharia, recitation and Islamic mascot supply. Missionaries and their descendants leaded the Islamic lifestyle and brought up children in an appropriate manner. ![]() Most of them immigrated to Western Siberia in 16–18 centuries. They were of Middle Asia descent, who integrated to the Turkic community. The missionaries played an important role in these processes. The process of Islamization took several centuries. Consisting of scattered kins and tribes, the Turks submitted to Islam hardly. Investigation bases on materials of the Kazakh archeological ethnographic expeditions of Omsk Department of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography SB RAS in 2011, 2013–2014. ![]() This article considers the role of Muslim missionaries and their descendants in the formation of religious and ethnicidentity of the Kazakhs of Western Siberia. ![]()
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