Review of the book by A.A. Shaov “Necessity and Exceptionalism”. Maykop: Magarin O.G. Publishing; 2022. 115 р.

Abstract

The review analyzes the monograph devoted to the renewal movement and the meanings of interpretation related to the members of it. This problem is relevant from the 19^th century to the present day. Attempts to carry out modernization and purification of Islam from the old meanings do not stop until now. There are many works of an updating nature and a reinterpretation of Islam from its legal base through the prism of the Western worldview. This monograph is the first of its kind, which attempts to reveal the epistemological path of the modernists (the so-called “Renovationists”) of Islam through the prism of traditional Islam.

The paper also deals with the question of creating a unified global civilizing project in support of traditional Islam with the challenges of the new times, without hermeneutic replacement of the exclusivity of the author's understanding of Islamic laws through the Renovationists’ discourse.