Example of a Belarusian book using Arabic script: a tafsir (parallel Qur’anic commentary) dated at 1890. Horizontal text lines from right to left are in Arabic language, diagonalwise descending portions, always from right to left, are in Belarusian language.

The community of Jirgän consisted of Chuvash people who converted to Islam in 1905 and erected an official mosque. They numbered seventy households, and [Fatih] served as their religious mentor until the Great Russian Revolution. Then he was forced to leave for [Central] Asia.

Chuvash Muslims after the October Revolution (1917)

[The Memoirs of ‘Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri from Istärlibash village in the south-west of Bashkiria
"Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia" ed. by Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov] 1/4