Рецензия на монографию Акаева В.Х. «Суфизм в контексте арабо-мусульманской культуры»

Abstract

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