MUSA BEEGHI AS A HISTORIAN OF THE RUSSIAN MUSLIMS" SOCIAL MOVEMENT
Damir Vaisovich Mukhetdinov,
Lomonosov Moscow State University,
1 Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia,
ildar-nn@ya.ru.
Aidar Yurevich Khabutdinov,
Kazan branch of the Russian Academy of Justice,
7a 2-ya Azinskaya Str., Kazan, 420088, Russia,
aihabutdinov@mail.ru.
Ilshat Ferdinantovich Gimadeev,
Kazan Federal University,
18 Kremlevskaya Str., Kazan, 420008, Russia,
IFGimadeev@kpfu.ru.
The relevance of the problem under study is determined by the fact that today Muslim social movement is becoming more active and widespread in Russia and all over the world. The article aims to show how Russian Muslims’ social movement combined the slogans for religious autonomy and the transformation of Russia into a legal state during the revolution of 1905-1907. The study of this issue is based on the theory of capital by Pierre Bourdieu, since the creation of a religious autonomy along with the religious capital by the clergy sought to acquire cultural, social and symbolic capital. We come to the conclusion that Islahat Esaslary (‘Fundamentals of Reforms’) by Musa Beeghi focuses on the desire of the Russian Muslim elite, especially the Tatar elite, to use the social movement and the reform projects of the period of the Russian Revolution of 1905-1907 to create stable structures of religious autonomy. Musa Beeghi's work tells of the projects by Rizaetdin Fakhretdin who played a key role in the religious structures of the Muslims of the Volga-Ural region, starting from the first years of the last century until his death in 1936.
Key words: Musa Beeghi, Islam, Rizaetdin Fakhretdin, the Russian Revolution of 1905-1907, the Orenburg Muslim Spiritual Assembly.
