The article gives a brief review of the development of Islamic Studies and Muslim theology in the Republic of Tatarstan in the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet periods.

This paper analyzes the changing in the perception of the Tatar Muslims of ‘Bukhara’ Islamic education, turning it into a synonym of backwardness and inflexibility. Formation as a pseudo-national nation state led to the highlighting of the political slogans, such as secularism, materialism and scientism, which composed a linear progressive scheme of the history of Tatar people.

The article describes the conditions of implementation of accreditation procedures in the field of Muslim education. For the first time public accreditation is considered as a way of ensuring «ideological recognition» of Muslim community from other public groups. Presents historical examples of the use of public evaluation of educational activities in pre-revolutionary madrasah «Husainiya». Three options of introduction of procedures of public accreditation in system of Muslim education are offered; conditions which need to be created for achievement of this purpose are analysed.

The article deals with the new phenomenon in the social life of Tatar nation in the beginning of 20th century – ishanism. Ishanism a socio-cultural phenomenon incorporated from Central Asian culture, gains its own peculiarities for the population of Volga and Volga-Urals region in the boundaries of 19-20th century. First of all, ishanism was accepted by progressive part of population as remnants of the past, embodiment of ignorance and consists of negative sides of traditional clergy.

This article describes the main aspects of the analysis of the crisis of the Tatar intellectual elite of the late XIX – early XX centuries the solutions to the crisis of the Tatar society Tatar intellectuals see in the revival of the social Sciences, which were buried in the early stage of the formation of Muslim society. They propose to withdraw from the political and scientific isolation and to guide the development of the Tatar society at expanding the horizons of knowledge to achieve progress and to keep pace with the times, with new demands and challenges. Also, according to them, it is important for the Muslim community to take intellectual initiative in their hands, to guide the development of the revival of public institutions, offering them an alternative civilizational solutions.

The article deals with the role of Islam in human life and society. The basic values of canons of Islam are set out based on the Holy book Quran. Clearly set out the role of Islam in modern life and society.

This article is pointing out the changes in the Federal act of the Freedom of religion and religious institutions. The author emphasizes that religious education and upbringing cannot be considered official educational activities.

The formation of a fully bilingual individual depends not only on the interaction between the native and studied languages, but no less important in this process is the interaction of two cultures. The culture of each nation is versatile and original. Cultural linguistics, gathers and organizes people’s knowledge influences the process of identity formation. Helps to determine the most effective pedagogical tools.

The phraseological unit is considered more complicated than its constituents are, concerning both its external and internal build. There appear some complexity in finding the correspondences to the original phraseological unit. Within the frames of this article the phraseological structural and semantical characteristics, and the phraseological corresponding types the translator might use, are being analyzed.

At the end of the 20-th century scientists turned their attention to the special functional language style – religious style, characteristic of which is connected with norms of literary language and high intention of imam’s sermon.

The article deals with the results of the analysis of color idioms in the English and Turkish languages. Color is one of the means of the perception of the world, expression of our attitude towards other people and reflection of selfconsciousness of a nation. In the English and Turkish linguistic worldviews, “color” components are used in a wide range of idioms and each color introduces a particular meaning.

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of phraseological units, containing parts of a human body, on a base of two languages, belonging to the same language group: Tatar and Turkish languages.

This study examines the methodology of the teaching of grammar peculiarities in the Turkish language. This paper presents an overview of typical mistakes made by students during the study of a particular grammatical appearance of the Turkish language. The following grammatical peculiarities of Turkish language are presented in this study such as a category of the belonging of the nouns in the Turkish language, the procedure of binding of the Turkish adjectives and numerals with nouns, as well as the word order in a Turkish simple sentence. These aspects are presented in comparison with the similar phenomena in the Russian language. The author of article also informs about ability to build the training process of the Turkish language correctly and logically, giving an analysis of exercises.

The following article deals the most important aspects of the problem of application of the discussion method in order to develop the communicative skills in students during the English lessons. Also we give clear representation of such concepts as «communicative skills» and «communicative method of teaching». Basing on the results of comparison between application of the discussion method during English lessons and native language lessons, there were described main advantages of the discussion method as the principal tool for the formation of the communicative skills while speaking English.

This article is devoted to the use of podcasts in contemporary education. The definition of such terms like “podcast” and “podcasting” are given in the article. Also classifications of podcasts and linguadidactical potential of a podcast are represented here. Moreover in this article we examine the methodology of work with authentic podcasts and its stages on a foreign language lesson. The article is based on the works of scientists and scholars who study the concept of podcasting as a new resourse of the development of communicating and speech skills of students.

The article «Didactic potential of Arabic proverbs and sayings» gives the comprehension of the definition of Arabic proverbs as representatives of the lingua-cultural fund of the Arabic language. The educational function of Arabic proverbs, reflecting people mentality, helps not only learning material but also developing thinking and creative potential.

This article deals with the most important aspects of use of authentic videos‘ impact on perception of educational materials and increase of motivation in the learning process. The article also studies the benefits of original videos over other types of learning materials, their weak sides, peculiarities of students’ psycho-physiological mechanisms of perception of visual and auditory information. This work also shows all the stages of building an ESL lesson with the use of authentic video material. The article is based on the works of scientists, scholars, educators interested in a search for new ways of teaching foreign languages, teachers practicing the use of original videos in their work.