International audience The Belarusian Tatar minority, representing about 0.1 percent of the population of Belarus, experienced a cultural revival led by its intelligentsia in the early 1990s. This article examines the ways in which two Tatar intellectuals helped reconstruct a Belarusian Tatar identity through their quarterly journal, Bajram. It argues that this identity had four distinct pillars : Islam ; loyalty to Belarus ; attachment to the Belarusian language ; and Tatar ethnicity. It also examines the use of history in Bajram in support of its editors’ views on Belarusian Tatar identity. The article places this identity construction project in the context of the Belarusian Renaissance (a nationalist movement led by the members of the intelligentsia) and Belarusian politics of the late Soviet and early post-independence eras.