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Article name Discourses of Euro-Islam
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Bibliographic description Shimanskaya O. K., Senyutkina O. N. Discourses of Euro-Islam // Transbaikal State University Journal. 2023. Vol. 29, no 1. Pp. 139–148. DOI: 10.21209/2227-9245-2023-29-1-139-148.
Category Politology
DOI 322
DOI 10.21209/2227-9245-2023-29-1-139-148
Article type Original article
Annotation In the modern world, the increasing pace of globalization strengthens inter-civilization interaction, its consequence is the Europeanization of non-European social worlds and cultures, and the response to it was the orientalization of Europe, that is the emergence and integration of significant Muslim diasporas on the territory of European states. The Europeanization of the Islamic regions of the East and the increase as a result of migration of Muslim communities in European countries poses the problem of a painless and, preferably, fruitful synthesis of the European way of life and values with the ethics and lifestyle of followers of Islam. The purpose of the article is to consider the positions assessing the interpenetration of Islam and Western European culture in the discussions of Islamic scholars, politicians and religious figures. The object of the study is discussions about the concept of “Euroislam” in modern Russian and foreign oriental literature. The subject of the study is the content of the concept of “Euroislam” in relation to modern socio-political life and religious practices of Muslims. The objectives of the study are: to analyze the genesis of the emergence of the concept of “Euroislam” among thinkers of different regions of residence of Muslims in new and modern times; to define the concept of “Euroislam” in domestic science and the religious and political field; to identify the relationship of the concept of “Euroislam” with the realities of the life of the Muslim world, as well as the existence of Muslim communities in Russia and Europe. The work is carried out on the basis of the general scientific principles of objectivity, consistency, historicism using the hermeneutic method, methods of content analysis and comparative studies, as well as formal-logical procedures for deduction and induction, definition and classification. Using comparative techniques, the authors have made an attempt to answer the question of how much Euroislam affects such components of classical Islam as its dogma, rituals and organization of religious life. This approach to Islamic issues allows to a certain extent to enrich the methodology of humanitarian research with additional experience in the use of comparative studies. The case of Euro Islam raises the question of the possibility of the “joint existence” of different ethnic groups and faiths and the “collective habit” (that is, the incorporation of the individual’s social and political experience), on the one hand, and the basic principles of democracy of the Western European model, on the other.
Key words Euroislam, Islam, Western Europe, Russia, Muslims, value orientations of local civilizations, historical reconciliation, European Muslims, liberal Islam,  socio-political factors
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