Community Life: Cultural Memory and the Construction of a Contemporary Muslim Tatar Identity in Poland

This chapter presents selected aspects of the cultural and religious life of Polish Muslim Tatars with a special focus on their religious practices. On the one hand, the Polish Muslim Tatars are part of the Muslim religious minority; on the other hand they are a cultural minority without necessary religious connotations, though most of them describe themselves as Poles of Tatar origin and of Muslim denomination.