THE NATURE AND CONTENT OF ISLAMIC FAITH FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF MUSA BIGEEV

The  paper  is devoted to analysis of one  of the  masterpieces of the  famous  Tatar  religious thinker Musa Jarullah  Bigeev in which he considers the essence and content of faith  in Islam.  The author explains Bigeev’s thoughts about the  importance of the  faith  problem, the  background of the causes of the religious crisis in Islam and its results and describes Bigiev’s propositions how the getting out of this  crisis could be realized.

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