“Nur al-Haqiqa” Sources by Hasan ‘Ata Gabashi in the Socio-Political Aspect
https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2022-15-2-284-302
Abstract
The article examines the sources of “Nur al-Haqiqa” (1886) by Hasan ‘Ata Gabashi. The paper analyzes Gabashi’s “hybrid subjectivity” through the theological Muslim and Christian texts cited by the author, dogmatic and legal writings, works of a “secular nature”, as a person of a “boundary” time. The study shows how in his system of values the ideas of diff erent movements of intellectual thought subtly intertwined in the conditions of the constantly transforming reality of the 19th–20th centuries. In particular, being a graduate of the traditional “old-method” madrasah Ghaff aria, Gabashi simultaneously studies “secular” sciences: History, Geography, the Native Language. Moreover, working as a teacher in a madrasah in his native village of Maly Sulabash (now Vysokogorsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan), he includes these subjects into the curriculum, thereby introducing the “new method” into the education system. At the same time, he perfectly masters the technique of kalam and the logical methods of dispute, and participates in discussions and polemics with a great pleasure.
Keywords
the late 19th Century,
Muslims in the Russian Empire,
Volga Region,
the sources,
Hasan ‘Ata Gabashi,
Nur al-Haqiqa
UDC: 93/94/23+297.1
About the Author
D. Z. Mardanova
Sh. Mardjani Institute of History of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dinara Z. Mardanova, Cand. Sc. degree seeking applicant (Hist.), a Researcher in Sh. Marjani Institute of History
Kazan
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Mardanova D.Z. “Nur al-Haqiqa” Sources by Hasan ‘Ata Gabashi in the Socio-Political Aspect. Minbar. Islamic Studies. 2022;15(2):284-302. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2022-15-2-284-302
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