HOW TO INTEGRATE ISLAMIC EDUCATION INTO THE SYSTEM OF SECULAR NATIONAL EDUCATION
The article discusses the current state of Islamic education in Russia, the processes preceding its modernization and its stages over the last few decades. The increased attention to Islamic education is associated with those geopolitical changes and globalization processes which take place in the modern world in recent decades. These processes are responsible for the need to consider the prospects of the development of Islamic education from the perspective of multi-polarity and taking into account the changing role of the Muslim countries, occupying today a solid niche in the global world and offering an alternative to the Western model of civilization development. Modern education is formed and developed in a multicultural society. This is a characteristic feature of today's world and an important detail of Russian reality. The tasks of education are not only to transfer knowledge and teach people to professional skills, but also to form their spiritual world and develop their personal qualities. Islamic education is not an outsider of this trend; it is also aimed at personal development and the formation of professional competencies. The successful development of the Islamic education system in Russia, its interaction with the secular one has its own socio-cultural characteristics, which are expressed in the integrative movement of relations between two systems: Islamic (religious) and secular education. The historical foundations of their modern interaction are based on the long-term experience of living in the common territory of peoples and communities with different religions, which contributed to the formation of a multicultural society in Russia. Consolidation of efforts of Islamic educational organizations and state secular structures is due to the need to disseminate reliable information about Islamic culture and its heritage, to fulfill the tasks of countering extremist ideology.