The Cardiocentrism in Islamic Culture and Religion

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to substantiate Islamic culture and religion as a kind of cardiocentrism. It is no secret that in the educational and research literature, the Slavic, especially Russian and Ukrainian philosophy, represented by P. D. Yurkevich, G. S. Skovoroda, I. A. Ilyin, D. I. Chizhevsky and others, there is a current which might be called cardiophilosophy or “philosophy of the heart”. We tried to prove that the Islam is likely more cardiocentric in its doctrine than the Orthodoxy. Special attention is paid to the works of the Central Asian Sufi thinker al-T irmizi, who laid the foundations of Islamic cardiocentrism, where the heart is considered as the core of the entire spiritual and spiritual life of a person. Therefore, the formation of a strong and conscious Islamic faith is associated with the formation of strong “heart nodes of salvation”, around which the formation of a holistic spirituality of the individual takes place.