Abstract
The article deals with the analysis of the problems of the cult of saints in the religious views of the greatest Tatar Jadid - theologians of the late 18th and the early 20th centuries. The research aims to investigate the views of Abdennacer Kursawe, Shihab Al-din al-Marjani, Galimjan Barudi, Rizaetdin Fakhretdin, Musa Jarullah Bigiev. The scholars searched the reasons for the crucial decline that involved the Muslim peoples, they believed that the only way out was the correction of Muslim beliefs, the refusal of religious innovations and the return to the Holy Quran and Sunnah. They criticized various manifestations of ignorance and superstition as well as some traditions that, in their opinion, were contrary to the canons of Islam and prevented the progress of Muslims. The Jadids supported the reform of the education system, the study of worldly sciences, the borrowing and use of global scientific and technological and other achievements. The similar position of Tatar theologians contributed to the formation of Islamic cultural values and present new ways for Russian Muslims to unify to the achievements of the world civilization.
Highlights
Jadidism as a social and political and intellectual movement among the Turkic Muslims of the Russian Empire in the late 18th and early 20th centuries is studied in many researches
At the same time the question of the attitude of the Russian ulama-Jadids to the cult of the saints, which was spread among the majority of Turkic-Muslims, is not widely investigated
Prominent representatives of this movement – Abdennacer Kursawe, Shihab Al-din al-Marjani, Galimjan Barudi, Rizaetdin Fahretdin, Musa Jarullah Bigiev Marjani – were supporters of innovative ideas in the interpretation of Muslim religious doctrine. The peculiarity of their appeal was the rejection of innovations in religion and a return to the Qur'an and Sunnah, as well as the opinion of the companions of the Prophet Muhammad. They opposed many existing traditions and, in their opinion, contradicted the doctrines of Islam, primarily against the cult of saints, which was especially revered among ordinary peoples
Summary
Problematics of Saints Cult in Works of Jadidist-Theolologians of the Late XVIII and the Early XX cc. The article deals with the analysis of the problems of the cult of saints in the religious views of the greatest Tatar Jadid – theologians of the late 18th and the early 20th centuries. The scholars searched the reasons for the crucial decline that involved the Muslim peoples, they believed that the only way out was the correction of Muslim beliefs, the refusal of religious innovations and the return to the Holy Quran and Sunnah. They criticized various manifestations of ignorance and superstition as well as some traditions that, in their opinion, were contrary to the canons of Islam and prevented the progress of Muslims.
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