Praktyki religijne Tatarów polskich na przykładzie obchodzenia święta Kurban Bajram
Religious Practices of the Polish Tatars on the Example of the Celebrations of the Kurban Bajram

Summary/Abstract: The present article describes the Tatars’ religious practices on the example of the celebrations concerning the Kurban Bajram feast – the most important among the Muslim celebrations. Firstly, the author remembers the history of the Polish Tatars, their struggle to assimilate among Polish society. Special attention should be paid here to the harmonious co-existence of the Tatars with the Poles and Lithuanians. Then the author analyses the ceremony of preparing the sacrificial animal and its ritual slaughter, the ritual obligations of those sacrificing – the imam and the ritual slaughterer; as well as the modifications of those religious behaviours in the Polish context. The description of the social reception of ritual slaughters is emphasised here. The article ends with remarks upon the integrating character of the Kurban Bajram feast that allows the preservation, through centuries, the Tatar religious and cultural identity in Poland.

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