Women's Religious Radicalism in the Case of Biographical Narratives of Muslim Women in Modern Tatarstan

The present article is devoted to how Muslim women who were members of Islamist organizations banned in Russia explain their path to Islam, and then the reason for their radicalization. The research paper also examines the self-positioning of Muslim women within the framework of the narrative that was received during our interview with them. In the article, the author argues that Muslim women assess themselves as reflective subjects who independently built their biography. The exception that violated this subjectivity was involvement in the activities of banned organizations, which, according to the Muslim women, took place under the influence of external causes.