Geidar Jachidowitsch Jemal

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Geidar Jemal (2011)

Geidar Dschachidowitsch Dschemal ( Russian Гейда́р Джахи́дович Джема́ль , also transcribed Geydar Dschemal ; born November 6, 1947 in Moscow , Soviet Union ; † December 5, 2016 in Almaty , Kazakhstan ) was a philosopher and socially-active-Islamic revolutionary, Kazakhstan . He was the founder of the Russian Islamic Committee.

Life

Jemal was born in Moscow. His father was an Azerbaijani artist and his mother a Russian trainer and rider.

After primary school, Jemal began his studies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies at Lomonosov University in Moscow . After a year of his studies, he was expelled from the university because he "showed bourgeois nationalism". He then worked first as a cutting machine operator and later as a répétiteur for languages. He also worked as a reviewer of foreign language works in various libraries.

In the 1990s he wrote a television program about Islam on Russian television. He worked with various Islamic organizations in Europe. In 1994 he organized a meeting of the Iranian Islamists with the Patriarch of Moscow, Alexius II. In 1998 he was visiting professor at the University of Cape Town . There he gave lectures on political philosophy and social anthropology . He received the Doctor honoris causa at the same university. In 2009 he was a candidate for parliamentary elections in the Duma . In the same year, his organization, the Russian Islamic Committee, was accused of supporting terrorism in Russia. His house was later searched. But nothing illegal was found.

He was one of the first 34 signatories of the March 2010 manifesto against Vladimir Putin entitled Putin Must Go .

During the last years of his life he lectured and wrote books and essays on philosophy, theology and current politics.

On December 5, 2016, Jemal died in Almaty after a long illness. He was buried in the same city the next day.

family

Geidar Dschemal's son Orhan Geidarowitsch Dschemal (1966-2018) was a co-founder of the Muslim Union of Russian Journalists .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexei Tschelnokow: Muedzin on the Stasskajaturm. Izvestia magazine, December 20, 1995, accessed January 21, 2017 (Russian).
  2. ↑ a b Geydar Jemal was buried in Almaty. Osodlik, December 6, 2016, accessed February 7, 2017 (Russian).
  3. ↑ Died Geydar Jemal. Regnum, December 5, 2016, accessed February 7, 2017 (Russian).
  4. ↑ Wladimir Waschenko: Geydar Dschemals time is over. gazeta.ru, December 5, 2016, accessed February 7, 2017 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Jemal, Geidar Jachidowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jemal, Geydar; Джема́ль, Гейда́р Джахи́дович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Islamic revolutionary, social activist, philosopher and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 2016
Place of death Almaty , Kazakhstan