Abstract
The urgency of the problem under investigation is due to modern processes of religious revival, actively manifested primarily in the Muslim environment, in violent politicization of Islam, the growing influence of radical movements. The article aims to study the experience of the modernization of the Muslim community in Russia (late XIX - early XX centuries), opportunities and prospects for its reception at the present time. The civilizational approach is the leading one to the study of this problem, which allows us to consider the Muslim community in Russia as an integral part of Islamic civilization, positive changes in its socio-cultural way of life - in the context of Islamic modernization processes. Based on the study of the works of Muslim modernists, the authors concluded that in the late XIX - early XX centuries they substantiated the principles of tolerance and rationalism in addressing religious issues, which have become the basis of modernization of the entire way of life of the Muslim community in Russia and an alternative to fundamentalist revival. The article may be useful in the development of training courses on the history of Islam, the Muslim peoples, the history of the Tatar people, as well as the history of culture and social thought of the peoples of Russia as a whole.
Highlights
The phenomenon of the modern religious revival in Russia is directly linked to global social and political disasters that have befallen our country in recent times
The article aims to study the experience of the modernization of the Muslim community in Russia, opportunities and prospects for its reception at the present time
Based on the study of the works of Muslim modernists, the authors concluded that in the late XIX - early XX centuries they substantiated the principles of tolerance and rationalism in addressing religious issues, which have become the basis of modernization of the entire way of life of the Muslim community in Russia and an alternative to fundamentalist revival
Summary
The phenomenon of the modern religious revival in Russia is directly linked to global social and political disasters that have befallen our country in recent times. The 20-th century ended with the collapse of the last empire and the devaluation of spiritual values of the disintegrated atheist state It is not rhetorical questions "Who are we?", "Where?" And "Where are we going?" reflected the crisis of human identity of the post-Soviet era, his appeal to the saving, but almost lost religious traditions. Developing processes of religious revival, both in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union once again raised questions about the place of Islam and the Muslim Ummah in the modern society, on how to integrate Islamic religious and spiritual values and cultural traditions in the modern world (Mukhametshin, 2005). The phenomenon of "neodzhadidizm" sparked heated debate in the modern Muslim society (Nabiyev, 2002, 2014), which is accompanied by a permanent appeals to the era of classical Jadidism, disputes about its essence and meaning
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