Rawil Ismagilowitsch Gainutdin

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Rawil Ismagilowitsch Gainutdin
Rawil Ismagilowitsch Gainutdin 2015 with President Putin

Mufti Rawil Gaynetdin ( Russian Равиль Исмагилович Гайнутдин , Tatar Равил Гайнетдин Rawil Ğaynetdin * 25. August 1959 in Shali , Rajon Pestretschinski , Tatar ASSR ) is chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia and the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation is and from a Considered part of the country's Muslim community as the highest Islamic dignitary.

Early career

Gainutdin is of Tatar origin and a close relative of Mufti Talgat Tajuddin . During the Soviet period he rose to become the deputy chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims in the European part of the Soviet Union and Siberia ( Duchownoje uprawlenije Musulman ewropejskowo chasti SSSR i Sibiri ; DUMES). In January 1991 he was appointed head of the Moscow Muchtasibat , which is responsible for the entire regions of central Russia. Together with the young Muslim activist WW Medvedev, he founded the "Islamic Cultural Center" (IKZ) on April 5, 1991, which was supposed to coordinate the processes of the rebirth of Islam in the capital.

Spin-off from ZDUM and establishment of the Russian Muftirate

On January 29, 1994, Gainutdin was elected President and Mufti of the newly founded Spiritual Administration of the Central European Region of Russia ( Duchownoje uprawlenije Musulman Zentralno-Ewropejskowo regiona Rossii ; DUMZER), a body that was formally still subordinate to the ZDUM , but very closely was associated with the management of the Association of Moscow Sobornoy Mosque and the Islamic Cultural Center. On September 21, 1994, Gainutdin was expelled from the Presidium of the ZDUM by a resolution of the plenum of the ZDUM and removed from all positions he held. ZDUM activists tried in vain to enforce this decision in Moscow.

In early March 1995, imams angry with Gainutdin published the "Appeal of the Muslim Tatar Organizations and Imams of Moscow and Moscow Oblast, " in which Gainutdin was accused of abuse of office and arbitrariness. The parishioners of the Sobornoj Mosque were called upon to restrict "the dictatorship of Rawil Gainutdin", to restore the mosque's status as a parish of the ZDUM and to reinstate the two dismissed imams, Ramil Aljautdin and Chasan Fachretdinov. On May 7th, the DUMZER plenary meeting in Moscow expelled the imams who oppose Rawil Gainutdin from the Sobornoj mosque. On June 27th, Gainutdin held a mediation meeting with the leader of the "Supreme Coordination Center of Spiritual Administrations of Russia" ( Wysschij koordinazionnij Zentr duchownych yprawlennij Musulman Rossii ; WKZDUMR), the Supreme Mufti Gabdulla Galiullin.

On the initiative of Gainutdin, the "Russian Muftirate" was founded on July 1, 1996, to which the DUMZER, the DUM of the Republic of Tatarstan , the DUM of the Republic of Bashkortostan , the DUM of the Volga region , the DUM of the Orenburg Oblast with the muftiate of Buguruslan and joined the regional DUM of Ulyanovsk and Ulyanovsk Oblast . Gainutdin was unanimously elected chairman of the newly founded umbrella organization.

In June 1997, Gainutdin came into conflict with the Tatar businessman and patron, the chairman of the DUM Siberia, R.Sch. Bayazitow. In January 1999 DUMZER changed its name to "Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of the European Part of Russia" ( Duchownoje uprawlenije Musulman ewropejskoj chasti Rossii ; DUMER), but Gainutdin remained chairman of the organization. On August 23, 1999, President Boris Yeltsin Gainutdin expressed his gratitude for the great contribution he had made to the establishment of peace and harmony in society.

Statements on Islamic Terrorism and Interreligious Dialogue

On the occasion of the Iraq war in 2003, Gainutdin spoke out against calls for armed struggle against US troops. He believes that Muslims should help Iraq legally. Regarding the Islamist terror in Russia, he noted in 2003 that the terrorists were also fighting against the Muslim clergy. He condemned terrorism and traced its roots back to poor religious education and the spiritual isolation of extremists from the rest of society. He advocated tolerance as an indispensable basis of the multi-ethnic Russian state. The suicide bombing at the airport Domodedovo on January 24, 2011, he commented, saying: "Innocent people have been killed and hospitals, doctors fighting for the lives of the victims"; the perpetrators would go to hell .

He was one of the 138 signatories of the open letter a common word between us and you ( english A Common Word Between Us and You ), the personalities of Islam to "leaders of Christian churches everywhere" (English: "Leaders of Christian Churches, everywhere ..." ) (October 13, 2007).

In April 2016, on the occasion of a conference in Ufa on the subject of “Koranic humanism as a training basis for Russian Islam in the 21st century” , Gainutdin described the influence of permissive mass culture and consumption as well as “pseudo-religious radicalism” as the “two great moral challenges of ours Umma ”.

Support for mosque building activities

On September 11, 1998, Gainutdin visited Tver for the first time , where he introduced the Muslims and the state authorities to Fanis Bilyalov, whom he had appointed rector of the Sobornoj Mosque in Tver. On November 3, he visited Vladimir Oblast and supported the plan to build a mosque in Vladimir at a meeting with the governor . In May 2005, Gainutdin told journalists that it was necessary to build at least one mosque in each of Moscow's ten administrative districts. At the laying of the foundation stone for the new Moscow Sobornoj Mosque on September 10, 2005, Gainutdin explains that there are only four mosques in Moscow, two of which are in the embassies of Iran and Azerbaijan. In June 2007, he announced to the public plans to build two new mosques in Moscow, the Akhmad Kadyrov Mosque in Yuzhnoe Butovo, where Akhmad Kadyrov Street already existed, and the Imam Shamil Mosque in the lap Entusiastow.

literature

  • Michael Kemper: "Mufti Ravil 'Gainutdin: The Translation of Islam into Language of Patriotism and Humanism" in Alfrid K. Bustanov and Michael Kemper (eds.): Islamic Authority and the Russian Language: Studies on Texts from European Russia, the North Caucasus and West Siberia . Pegasus, Amsterdam, 2012. pp. 105-142.
  • Roman A. Silantjew: Islam w sovremennoj Rossii, enziklopedija . Algoritm, Moscow, 2008. pp. 402-428.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Silantjew : Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 403.
  2. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 175b, 404.
  3. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 418.
  4. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 404.
  5. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 405.
  6. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 418b.
  7. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 418b.
  8. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, pp. 418b-419a.
  9. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 405.
  10. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 419.
  11. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 407.
  12. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 420a.
  13. ↑ Internet source from Radio Free Europe accessed on March 28, 2008 (in English) ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rferl.org
  14. ↑ News, accessed on March 28, 2008 (in English) in the Russian network newspaper Caucasian Knot
  15. ↑ Airport bombers will go to hell - Council of Muftis
  16. ↑ acommonword.com: A common word between us and you (summarized short form) (PDF; 186 kB)
  17. ↑ Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of the Russian Federation, June 12, 2016 (Russian)
  18. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 419b.
  19. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, pp. 409, 421b.
  20. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 421b.
  21. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 411.
personal data
SURNAME Gainutdin, Rawil Ismagilowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian clergyman, Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Shali , Pestretschinsky Raion , Tatar ASSR , Russian SFSR , Soviet Union