Знаете, у китайцев есть поговорка: не дай нам Бог жить в эпоху перемен. Мы живем как раз в эпоху перемен. Просто есть такая тяжелая историческая поступь, мы как раз попали на время перемен, время больших событий, время, когда общая картинка, общий абрис мира стоит в точке бифуркации и будет меняться. И эта точка бифуркации, она находятся как раз на стыке исламского и христианского мира. Это не посыл к тому, что были правы Хантингтон и Тойнби со своими столкновениями цивилизаций. Нет, не в этом дело. Просто сейчас сложилась ситуация, к которой логично пришел мир.

 

Islamic Revival as a Search for New Forms of Political Representation

Orkhan Jemal
journalist (Moscow, Russia)
orkhandj@mail.ru

The main idea that Orkhan Jemal expresses in his interview is that the current stage of Islamic revival is not the desire to move back to the past or denial of progress. But as a result of social progress leading to the marginalization of a huge portion of the Islamic religious community due to the loss of political representation after the Islamic caliphate was destroyed, the search for the new forms of such representation is in progress. This search takes place in different forms, and it is accompanied by violence as it presupposes radical political shifts. The same thing occurred in the other similar situations, for example in the course of the Protestant Reformation, and in implementation of the communist project. Orkhan did not connect the current situation in Islam with migration from Muslim states to the West (he explained the problems that arose here by the crisis of Europe itself). At the same time, he thinks that one of the forms of Islamic expansion should be the development of a model of life for everyone (including non-Muslims) that is characterized by serious moral superiority compared to the current Western way of life.