scholarly journals Review of the monograph by V.Kh. Akaev "Sufism in the Context of Arab-Muslim Culture. Monograph. Grozny: State Unitary Enterprise "Book Publishing House", 2020. 523 pp."

2022 ◽  
pp. 157-161
Author(s):  
Светлана Аслановна Ляушева ◽  
Вячеслав Нурбиевич Нехай
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Political Life ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Cultural Conflicts ◽  
The North ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Historical Identity ◽  
Religious Radicalism ◽  
Muslim Culture

Монографическое исследование В.Х. Акаева представляет собой самостоятельное авторское исследование, посвященное проблемам генезиса и эволюции суфизма в глобальном и региональном измерении. Отмечается, что суфизм, сформировавшись в лоне арабо-мусульманской культуры, как религиозно-мистический феномен проник в духовное пространство народов Северного Кавказа. Его отличительной чертой в рассматриваемом регионе стало то, что суфистские братства сумели встроиться в структуру традиционных этносоциальных институций ряда северокавказских народов. Однако деформация общественно-политической жизни Северного Кавказа в начале 1990-х гг. привела к активизации деятельности радикалистов и экстремистов в Чечне и Дагестане. В рецензируемой монографии осмыслен деструктивный потенциал религиозного радикализма, который активно продвигался идеологами ваххабизма, оперировавшими концептами шахидизма. Определены принципиальные расхождения ваххабизма и суфизма в интерпретации теологической доктрины ислама. Отдельного внимания заслуживает и авторское описание социально-политического портрета асоциальных акторов радикализма. Делается вывод о том, что наиболее эффективным инструментом профилактики религиозного радикализма является диалог культур, нацеленный на смягчение культурных конфликтов и обеспечивающий их активный обмен при сохранении культурно-исторической самобытности. The monographic study of V.Kh. Akaev is an independent author's research on the problems of genesis and the evolution of Sufism in the global and regional dimension. Having formed in the bosom of Arab-Muslim culture, Sufism as a religious-mystical phenomenon penetrated the spiritual space of the peoples of the North Caucasus. Its distinctive feature in the region under consideration was that Sufi fraternities managed to integrate into the structure of traditional ethnosocial institutions of a number of North Caucasian peoples. However, the deformation of the socio-political life of the North Caucasus in the early 1990s led to the activation of the activities of radicalists and extremists in Chechnya and Dagestan. The peer-reviewed monograph makes sense of the destructive potential of religious radicalism, which was actively promoted by Wahhabism ideologists who operated on the concepts of Shahidism. Fundamental differences between Wahhabism and Sufism in the interpretation of the theological doctrine of Islam were determined. The author's description of the socio-political portrait of asocial actors of radicalism deserves special attention. The research shows that the most effective tool for preventing religious radicalism is the dialogue of cultures aimed at mitigating cultural conflicts and ensuring their active exchange while preserving cultural and historical identity.

scholarly journals Review of V.Kh. Akayev’s Monograph “Sufism in the Context of Arab-Muslim Culture”

Islamovedenie ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-119
Author(s):  
Yakhyaev Mukhtar Yakhyaevich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Anal Ysis ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The North ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Muslim Culture ◽  
Empirical Material

The reviewer outlines the content of V.Kh. Akayev's scholarly monograph “Sufism in the context of Arab-Muslim culture”, highlighting such its features as a consistent analysis of the diverse prerequisites for the origin and spread of Islam, the interpretation of its basic principles, and linking the evolution of Sufi culture with the development of Muslim society. The reviewer notes that the author provides a comprehensive analysis of Sufi culture and considers the main tariqas as an integral part of public life, where they find expression and play a controversial role. A distinctive mark of the monograph is its focus on the specifics of the formation of Sufi tariqa in various regions of the Muslim world, and, chiefly, in the North Caucasus. The structural anal-ysis of the monograph carried out in the review shows that the author permiates the idea that Ar-ab-Muslim culture cannot and should not be viewed as an anomaly in the development of hu-manity, since it is one of the universal ways of socio-cultural organization of society that is in interaction with other cultural and historical types thereof. Meanwhile, the radicalistic and ex-tremist manifestations in Islam fundamentally contradict the inner essence of this religion fo-cused on uniting people on the basis of equality, brotherhood, and social justice. The reviewer also comments on some inconsistency in the author's conclusions, as well as the redundancy of empirical material and some errors of a technical nature

scholarly journals The Islamic Factor in the Struggle for the Paths of Dagestan Development in the Conditions of the 1917 Revolution

Islamovedenie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Imanutdin Khabibovich Sulaev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The North ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Political Scene

The article examines the revolutionary events of 1917 in Dagestan from the standpoint of legal awareness of Muslim public figures and clergy and their participation in the socio-political life of the region. The events had both common for the entire Russia and specific features due to the level of socio-economic and political development of the region and the role of Islam in its society. The article examines how the turbulent revolutionary time brought authoritative Muslim leaders to the political scene. Later, they aspired to develop their own tactics and strategy in order to influence the course of events in Dagestan after the February Revolution of 1917. Each representative of the secular and spiritual intelligentsia had their own attitude to the political forces that emerged during the struggle for the revolutionary democracy. The author notes such a characteristic feature of the revolutionary democracy of 1917 in Dagestan as the active involvement of the Muslim clergy in the new government institutions, their appeal to Islam and Sharia when clarifying and resolving various issues of socio-political importance. It is shown that the most important and discussed issue was the election of the head of the Caucasian Spiritual Board of Muslims from among muftis or imams by the Muslims of Dagestan and the North Caucasus. The healthy socio-political forces of the region aspired to preserve law and order in the region appealing to Sharia and Islam.

scholarly journals The Two-Faced Janus of Radicalization. Heretical Thoughts. Based on the Work of Dr. Arne Seifert

2021 ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Irina V. Starodubrovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Previous Issue ◽  
The North ◽  
Religious Radicalism ◽  
Main Ideas ◽  
The Middle Ages

The paper continues discussion with the ideas expressed in Dr. Arne Seifert’s work “Civil Opposition to Religious Radicalism in Central Asia” (2020) which has started in the previous issue of the journal. The author doubts that expansion of Islamic fundamentalistic views means the inspiration to go back to the norms of the Middle Ages. Instead, this process is treated as a conflicting unity of archaization and modernization similar in its essence with the Protestant Reformation in Europe. The author’s proposals how to confront radicalization are based on the concepts described in the article. The main ideas are to involve Muslims in civil society activities preventing both their isolation and their involvement in violent practices, to intensify their contacts with secular civil society groups and movements, to expand their opportunities to accept modernity on their own terms. The author illustrates the productivity of such approaches using examples from the civil society activities in the North Caucasus including those projects where the author herself was involved.

JAMAL BEY ALBOGACHIEV: PUBLIC AND POLITICAL LIFE IN EMIGRATION

Kavkazologiya ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 154-170
Author(s):  
I.L. BABICH ◽  
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J. SCHNELLE ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
National Committee ◽  
Active Member ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
The North ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Intellectual Potential

The aim of this article is study social and political activities by ingush Jamal Albogachiev (1894–1949). This is the first study of this person. This article is based on the archives from France and Germany. Albogachiev was educated in Europe, knew European languages, and became a member of the Foreign Delegation of the Mountain Republic (Versailles, 1919). He married a German woman from Berlin. In 1921–1928 he and his family lived in Germany. In France (1929–1942) Albogaciev lived alone. He collaborated with many public figures: Ali Mardan Topchibashi, brothers Vassan-Girey and Mohammed-Girey Dzhabagiyev. At the same time he worked as a dancer in russian cabarets in Paris. In 1942–1945 Jamal was in Germany, where he became a member of the North Caucasian National Committee. After returning to France, the police investigated the reasons for his stay in Germany. As a result, Jamal was forced to leave for Morocco in 1948, where he died next year. The study of the life of Jamal Albogachiev, his socio-political views and activities showed that his fate was dramatic. Having received an excellent European education and knowledge of European languages, having got to Europe, he could not realize his intellectual potential, couldn’t make a career in Europe. He had the views of the creation of an independent state in the North Caucasus. However, he didn’t become an active member of the most famous and largest emigre movements of the North Caucasus. Despite the fact that he was part of the political North Caucasian elite, he was most often used in secondary or third roles.

scholarly journals Funkcje i dysfunkcje języka inkluzywnego, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem asymetrii rodzajowej w języku polskim

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacy Nasalski
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
The One ◽  
Muslim Culture

The text addresses the problem of relationships between grammatical gender and the possible existence relation between gender-based linguistic asymmetry on the one side, and thinking and organization of social life on the other. It is commonly believed that language not only describes but also creates reality, and the lack of gender-based linguistic symmetry leads therefore to a number of negative phenomena that impede the position of women or even exclude them from participating in public and political life. Not dismissing this view entirely, the texts demonstrates that the influence of grammatical gender and the feminine equivalents on thinking and on the situation of women is marginal. The comparison with the Arab countries and Iran provides the most convincing evidence. Arabic is characterized by an almost ideal symmetry with regard to gender, and Persian has no grammatical gender at all. Despite this fact, the situation of women in both areas of the Arab-Muslim culture is one of the worst in the whole world.

scholarly journals RUSSIAN CIVIC IDENTITY OF YOUTH IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS: THE MAIN CHALLENGES AND RISKS OF CONFLICT

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86
Author(s):  
Evgenij Avdeev ◽  
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Sergej Vorobev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
The State ◽  
Civic Identity ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The North ◽  
Russian Identity

Based on the analysis of the results of the scientific research “Ethnopolitical processes in the Caucasus in the assessments and perceptions of modern youth” (grant RFBR and ANO EISR No. 19-011-31300), the content and features of the formation of an all-Russian civic identity among young people in the North Caucasus are reviewed. The purpose of the study is to identify the risk of conflict in the process of forming the all-Russian identity of youth in the North Caucasus. The objectives of the study: determination of the ratio of the all-Russian civic, regional, ethnic and religious identity in the portfolio of identities of the youth in the North Caucasus, the main actors in the formation of the foundations of the all-Russian identity, the importance of patriotism and civic engagement for young people, as well as assessing the role of the state in the process of forming the all-Russian identity. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is made up of the main approaches and concepts of understanding the all-Russian civic identity. The empirical basis is sociological research consisting of assessments and views of young people in the North Caucasus. For the region, an extremely important task is the formation and development of an all-Russian civic identity, its integration with ethnic and regional identities in the minds of young people. Civic, regional, ethnic and religious identity in the minds of young people in the North Caucasus is in an unstable equilibrium state, which carries the risks of a conflict of identities. There is a demand among young people for active participation in the socio-political life of the region. The influence of the state, represented by the education system and state media, on the formation of the socio-political views of young people in the region is decreasing, and the role of the blogosphere and social networks is increasing. The state can become a leading actor in the formation of the all-Russian identity of the region, subject to the creation of a favorable social environment and the formation of functional feedback mechanisms between the authorities and the region’s youth.

The Development of Islamic Knowledge and Tourism in the Modern Life of North Caucasus

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Emilia Alaverdov
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
Political Organizations ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
The North ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Chechen Wars

The chapter examines the place and role of Islam in the socio-political life of the peoples in the North Caucasus, especially in the Chechen Republic, as well as relations between the state and religious organizations and society, and examines the role of Islam in the political and socio-spiritual life of the region. The work analyzes the struggles of Chechen people for independence, which were called the Chechen wars and given the cliché of Jihad, reflected in the revival of political organizations and activities. The chapter shows that having experienced two very dreadful wars it is still possible to build a strong, sovereign, safe republic with a very low criminal rate, and written a long stand strategy for the socio-economic development. It is worthy to say that the strategy has clearly defined basic priorities and development vector of the Chechen Republic until 2025 as a mechanism for their initial coordination, where the main priority in the tourism sector, since the republic has a great potential for it.

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