ISSN: 2691-5774
Authors: Krasovitskaya T*
Since the time of Peter I, Russian oriental studies have been recognized as one of the world’s strongest national schools. But ethno cultural discourse in the Russian political space needed to have a comprehensive language to describe the Russian Empire, in which the confessional structure of the population played a significant role. The situation was especially difficult in the Turkic linguistic community, most of them professing Islam. Contrary to the dominant secular optics, oriental science believed that religion, which for thousands of years dominated a significant part of civilized humanity, cannot be approached as a nonsense person concocted by deceivers. To clarify the scientific approach to self-understanding of ethno cultural communities in the imperial continuum, conceptual reflection was important.
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