Modlitewniki muzułmańskie (1986) Stefana Mustafy Jasińskiego: analiza zawartości i znaczenie w praktyce religijnej polskich Tatarów

Muslim Prayer Books by Stefan Mustafa Jasiński, although written more than 40 years after the end of the Second World War, were undoubtedly the most important collection of prayers compiled by Polish Tatars for this community during the difficult period of the People’s Republic of Poland (1945–1989). The first part has 216 numbered pages, was typewritten in Polish, and containsa transcription of Qur’ānic surahs and prayers into the Latin alphabet. The second, containing 314 pages, was based on a handwritten manuscript in partially modified Arabic script. An important feature of both prayer books is the large number of supplication prayers of the duʿāʾ type used in the religious practice of the Polish-Lithuanian Tatars, which have strong local characteristics both in the ritual and linguistic sense. Jasiński’s Muslim Prayer Books are a unique source, as the collection combines the traditional Tatar model of religiosity found in older religious manuscripts with more contemporary approaches.