Письма шейха Сайфуллы-кади Башларова из частного собрания муфтия Габдурахмана Расули: исторические и источниковедческие аспекты в контексте духовных связей суфийских шейхов Северо-Восточного Кавказа и Волго-Уральского региона на рубеже ХIX–XX вв.

Abstract

This study is a brief source analysis of a previously unknown collection of letters in Arabic addressed by Dagestani Sheikh Sayfullah-Qadi Bashlarov to his spiritual mentor Sheikh Zainullah ash-Sharifi (Rasulev). The letters were discovered in the manuscript collection of Sayfullah-Qadi Bashlarov’s successor (mazun) the Sufi sheikh Hassan-hilmi al-Kakhi. At request of Gabdurakhman Rasulev, the son of Sheikh Zainulla Rasulev, who probably kept their autographs, the letters were copied by Da-gestani Alim Kurbanali al-Muni, who lived in the town of Troitsk for a long time, The letters con-tain unique information from the biographies of Sheikhs Sayfullah-Qadi Bashlarov and Zainullah ash-Sharifi. The study of such sources helps to show true relations between those two outstanding Muslim intellectuals and, in general, enriches the source base for studying the history of cultural contacts between Muslim peoples of the Volga-Ural region and the North Caucasus as parts of the Russian Empire during the second half of the 19th–early 20th centuries.