Papers by Laura Toktarbekova
Adam alemi
Aigul Zabirova - Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor of United Arab Emirates University (U... more Aigul Zabirova - Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor of United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). Her research and writing focuses on Identity Pol-icy in post-soviet space, urbanization and mi-gration in Central Asia. For many years she has examined the Power, Identity’s Policy and Modernist Architecture in Kazakhstan. Her current research investigates how households in Central Asia, confronted by different economic, political and national environment try to achieve sustainable live-lihoods.
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The article deals with the role of classical falsafa heritage in the modern Islamic philosophical... more The article deals with the role of classical falsafa heritage in the modern Islamic philosophical discourse. Based on interpretations of texts of modern Islamic philosophers, the authors come to the conclusion about the relevance of the philosophical heritage of the past for the development of directions and methodologies of modern humanitarian knowledge. Conducting a comparative analysis of the doctrines of the Islamic Middle Ages and modern philosophers, the authors substantiate the commonality of approaches to the conceptualization of subjectivity, obligation, and existence. Modern Islamic philosophy is an experience of interaction between philosophy and theology. In Islamic philosophy, ethical questions were posed in connection with the discovery of moral consciousness in man. Human being, defined by moral sense, is understood by Islamic philosophers as a moral sensible being, in which a moral man and a moral society are formed. Exploring this issue, the authors have come to und...
LINGUISTICA ANTVERPIENSIA, May 15, 2021
There are a number of either simplistic and stereotypic views about the Islamness doctrinal or th... more There are a number of either simplistic and stereotypic views about the Islamness doctrinal or theoretical Islam, formed by „ijtihads‟ („Ijtihad‟ means independent, based on reasoning, interpretation of the issues were not openly covered in the primary sources of Islam) and Muslimness (embodiment of doctrinal Islam or Islamness in a particular identity) of Kazakhs, historically a major Central Asian Muslim nomadic group. This paper, first, tries to shed light on a fact that Kazakh religious perceptions and identity are in line with core Sunni Islamic doctrinal understandings characterized by spirituality, xenophile and being depoliticized. Second, this paper searches for a nexus between inclusiveness of Kazakh Muslimness and historical and civilizational foundations of Kazakhness. Although the Muslimness of Kazakhs, like all post-Soviet ethnic groups bears heavy stain of Soviet period, the historical and civilizational Islamic heritage of Kazakhs could not be totally erased and tran...
Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Political Science, 2019
The article considers the issue of the essence of Islamic identity and its significance in the hi... more The article considers the issue of the essence of Islamic identity and its significance in the historical and cultural tradition. In Kazakhstan, as in many other Central Asian regions, whose population is predominantly Muslim, Islam was formed in the context of an organic connection with local national and cultural traditions, among which the influence of Turkic cultural traditions can be noted. The authors analyzed the main aspects of Islamic identity and its formation in the sociocultural, geopolitical experience of the national culture of both the Islamic world and the European space. The modern global world leads to the unification of cultural, political and religious processes. In such circumstances, the destruction processes of identification of society and the individual are occurs. The loss of own cultural / religious identity has become one of the main problems in modern society. National culture is formed in the process of history and the logic of traditional relations. The article substantiates that the Kazakh Islamic identity was formed in the national culture, incorporating customs and traditions that did not contradict the Islamic system of values, and the traditions of spirituality were synthesized in the Islamic paradigm. The preservation of Islamic identity is directly related to the problem of national cultural identity and, in general, with the problem of preserving cultural heritage.
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Papers by Laura Toktarbekova