THE PROBLEM OF MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS CENTRALIZATION OF MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN RUSIIA IN HISTORICAL RETROSPECTIVE

Abstract

The article studies the problem of creating a centralized system of governing a Muslim community (ummah). Historical, regional and religious factors, specific to the construction of this system in Russia, are identified. The author examines traditional construction of religious governing an ummah, based rather on a regional than on a central system of governing, established in the late XVIII century. The process of creating a system of governing is investigated in an evolutionary way. The analysis is performed on the example of the transformation of religious institutions in different periods of the history of Russia: from the time of the Russian Empire and up to the present time.