Russia sets up an official Islamic institution
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- Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference pp. 296-299 · open book
The govern- Empires across C ontinents 279 ment responded by printing and distributing the Quran to Muslims and setting up in 1789 an institution to control the clergy, the Muslim Eccle siastical Assembly-located in Orenburg, the fortress town Pugachev had besieged.