‘ALPHABET OF ISLAM’ AS A SOURCE CONTAINING M. BIGI’S LIBERAL THEOLOGICAL VIEWS
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2019-15-1-25-32
Abstract
The book ‘The Alphabet of Islam’ of the Tatar thinker M. Bigi. (1875–1949) was published in Berlin in 1923. It criticizes Marxism and reveals liberal-theological views of M. Bigi. ‘The alphabet of Islam’ is his program work on all the pressing problems of his time. He wrote about which should be the policy of the Russian state towards Islam, the need to renew the canons of Islam to improve the ‘deplorable’ situation of both Russian and foreign Muslims. Bigi criticized the Bolshevik regime in Russia and opposed his ideal in the form of a Caliphate, advocating for the preservation of the Ottoman Caliphate, hoping that in this way the Tatar people will be able to survive as a nation.
About the Author
A. N. Yuzeev
Kazan branch of Russian State University of Justice.
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. Sci. (Philos.), professor; head of the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities.
7a, 2 Azinskaya Str., Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, 420088, Russian Federation.
References
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For citations:
Yuzeev A.N. ‘ALPHABET OF ISLAM’ AS A SOURCE CONTAINING M. BIGI’S LIBERAL THEOLOGICAL VIEWS. Islam in the modern world. 2019;15(1):25-32. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2019-15-1-25-32
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