The issue of models and strategies  of power, in accordance  with the Islamic political and legal tradition, remains at the focus of the global Islamic discourse. The discrepancy of the modernization project, introduced by the West to the culture of Islam, the imposition of different socio-political  matrix, a new form of cognition  of reality, and problems  in the implementation of state  projects,  force the Muslim religious  and intellectual  elite to look for adequate  forms of political and social management. Within  variability of the offered programs  and ideas, it is possible to highlight two main trends in the achievement of the objective.

The first – the reformist one – is aimed at making the necessary changes of the hybrid constitutions, developed  and  adopted  during  the  colonial  period,  of the  work  of the  constitutional courts, introduction of new legal norms, adequate to the modern times, into the social life. The second – the radical one – means a complete breakup  with the type of political and social management enshrined in the project of the Modern,  essentially a «return» to the Premodern by means of «re-activating» the classical Islamic political and socio-legal  concept sphere in the conceptual space and in social practice.

The article attempts  to analyse the peculiarity of the actualization of the concept «hijra» and a number  of related  concepts in the domain of the second trend,  as a response  to the challenges of modernity.