Editing Bashkirs (section)

==Religion==
[[File:Башкиры.1890.jpg|thumb|Bashkirs in the midday prayer in the vicinity of the village Muldakaevo. Photo by Maxim Dmitriev, 1890]]
[[File:Mechet 25 prorokov.JPG|thumb|[[Mosque of Twenty-Five Prophets]] in [[Ufa]], Bashkortostan]]

In the pre-Islamic period the Bashkirs practised [[animism]] and [[shamanism]], and incorporated the cosmogony of [[Tengrism]].<ref>Shireen Hunter, Jeffrey L. Thomas, Alexander Melikishvili, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=hVhHGJkfZDoC&dq=tengrism+of+Bashkirs&pg=PA199 Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security]", M.E. Sharpe Inc.</ref><ref>[http://www.vatandash.ru/index.php?article=212 К вопросу о тенгрианстве башкир] // Compatriot, Popular Science Magazine {{in lang|ru}}</ref>

Bashkirs began converting to Islam in the 10th century.<ref>Shirin Akiner, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=LUe0AAAAQBAJ&dq=islam+Bashkirs&pg=PA78 Islamic Peoples Of The Soviet Union]", Second edition, 1986</ref><ref name=":0" /> Arab traveler [[Ibn Fadlan]] in 921 met some of the Bashkirs, who were already Muslims.<ref>Allen J. Frank, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=nx2FwBKJ3MYC&dq=islam+Bashkirs&pg=PA168 Islamic Historiography and "Bulghar" Identity Among the Tatars and Bashkirs]", Brill, 1998</ref> The final assertion of Islam among the Bashkirs occurred in the 1320s and 1330s during the [[Golden Horde]] period. The Mausoleum of Hussein-Bek, burial place of the first Imam of historical Bashkortostan, is preserved in contemporary Bashkortostan. The mausoleum is a 14th-century building. [[Catherine the Great]] established the Orenburg Mohammedan Spiritual Assembly in 1788 in [[Ufa]], which was the first Muslim administrative center in Russia.

Religious revival among the Bashkirs began in the early 1990s.<ref>Jeffrey E. Cole, "[https://books.google.com/books?id=M9fDifnkMJMC&dq=religion+of+Bashkirs&pg=PA37 Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia]", Greenwood publishing group</ref> According to [[Talgat Tadzhuddin]] there were more than 1,000 mosques in Bashkortostan in 2010.<ref>[http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=38780 Интерфакс. Говорить о притеснении ислама в России кощунственно, считает Талгат Таджуддин] // [[Interfax]], 17 December 2010</ref>

The Bashkirs are predominantly [[Sunni Muslims]] of the [[Hanafi]] [[madhhab]].<ref name="encyclopedia">"[http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404100124.html Bashkortostan and Bashkirs]", Encyclopedia.com</ref>