Agnès Kefeli (NHC Fellow, 2019–20)

Fellowship Work Summary, 2019–20

Agnès Kefeli completed the draft of six chapters of her book, Enchanting the Eurasian Steppe, and wrote two articles: “Fawziya Bayramova’s Land of Giants: Sacred Topography and Giant Lineage in Soviet and Post-Soviet Literature,” and “Varieties of Esoteric Islam in Post-Soviet Tatar Literature.” She revised “The Return of Jinn and Angels: Repairing Prophetic Authority in Tatarstan,” a book chapter for Authority in Islam, edited by Ron Sela, forthcoming.