Abstract
In September 2002 the supreme mufti of Russia, Talgat Tadzhuddin, paid an official visit to the Chuvash Republic' in the Middle Volga region of the Russian Federation. Accompanied by the local Muslim clergy and an official delegation of notables, Tadzhuddin toured the Muslim sites of Chuvashia, met the Muslim faithful, celebrated the wedding of the local mufti and exchanged gifts and compliments with Nikolai Fedorov, the president of Chuvashia. The tour culminated in a visit to the newly constructed central mosque in the capital city of Cheboksary where the offices of the Chuvash Muslim Spiritual Administration were to be relocated (Vadimov, 2002, p. I). The mufti's visit represented a triumph of sorts for the main group of Muslim believers in Chuvashia, the Mishar Tatars. While small in numbers - the Mishars comprise only three per cent of the total population of the republic, which is
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