On the need for a specialized Russian-Chechen-Arabic dictionary of terms and legal categories

The scientific article is devoted to the study of some legal categories, terms that are used by Russian-speaking researchers in the process of studying the Islamic system of law, Fiqh, Sharia, the religion of Islam in general. As a justification for the relevance of the work, it is indicated that in Russian Academic Islamic studies there is a need for standardization and typification of a conceptual apparatus for the objective understanding and interpretation of various sources of the Islam religion and law, especially when it comes to issues of responsibility, analysis of the actions of the subject, and its behavior. In this study, the linguistic method is used as a methodological basis to a greater extent, which allowed to develop and show the formulations and the relationship of individual legal concepts and categories in Russian, Arabic and Chechen languages. Structurally, this work consists of an introduction, the main part presented in tabular form and a conclusion. As a conclusion, the work indicates that the Russian scientific academic community dealing with issues of Islam, Islamic law, is called upon to learn how to speak one universal language, regardless of what language and culture they represent (Russian, Chechen, Arabic, etc.) That should be the language of faith, science, the language of knowledge and of objective truth.

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