Talgat Tajuddin

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Vladimir Putin and Talgat Tajuddin, 2003

Talgat Tajuddin ( Tajuddinow) Safitsch (born October 12, 1948 in Kazan ) is chairman and supreme mufti of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims in Russia (ZDUM) and holds the title of Sheikh-ul-Islam . In terms of nationality, he is a Kazan Tatar.

Education and career during the Soviet era

Tajuddin began studying at the Mir-i-Arab Madrasa in Bukhara on October 13, 1966 and graduated with honors in 1973. In the same year he was appointed second imam - Khatib of the Kazan Cathedral Mosque al-Marjani. After a probationary period, Tajuddin enrolled at al-Azhar University in Egypt, which he finished in 1978. In the same year he was appointed the first Imam Khatīb of the al-Marjani Mosque. On June 19, 1980, at a conference of the Muslims of the European part of the USSR and Siberia, he was elected Mufti and chairman of the "Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of the European part of the USSR and Siberia" (DUMES). At that time, however, an opposition began to form against him. In 1989 he organized the all-Russian celebrations for the 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by the peoples of the Volga region and the pre-Ural region.

At a conference of the leaders of the spiritual administrations of the Soviet Union in May 1990, Tajuddin was elected chairman of the Directorate of International Relations of the Muslim Organizations of the Soviet Union. At the 5th congress of DUMES, which took place in Ufa from June 6th to 8th, 1990 , Tajuddin was confirmed in office as Mufti and chairman of DUMES and at the same time he was given the spiritual title of Sheikh-ul-Islam . However, in 1990 Tajuddin became the main target of criticism from Tatar nationalists.

Activities as Supreme Mufti of the ZDUM

Representatives of the traditional religions - Pandito Hambo-Lama Damba Ayusheyev , Muchammad Rachimow , Talgat Tajuddin, Kyrill I , Berel Lazar - together with Vladimir Putin on the Day of People's Unity (2012) in front of the Minin and Poscharsky monument in front of Basil -Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow .

Tajuddin has been the Supreme Mufti of the "Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims in Russia" ( Zjentralnoje duchownoje uprawlenije mussulman Rossii ; ZDUM) since 1994 . On September 21, 1998, he was awarded the Order of Friendship . In May 2002, Tajuddin took part in the founding of the Kremlin- supported " Evrasija " party, which aims to restore a pan-Russian empire on the pillars of "scientific patriotism", ethical traditionalism, the managed market economy and the ethnic roots of the "Eurasian" "Has set people as a goal.

On April 14, 2003, three weeks after the American intervention in Iraq and two weeks after Sheikh Tajuddin proclaimed the Holy War against the United States, it was declared by the rival Mufti Council of Russia under the direction of its longtime adversary, the head of the clergy Administration of the Muslims of the European part of Russia, Rawil Gainutdin , referred to in a fatwa as a "false prophet and apostate".

In 2006 he announced mass protests by Russian Muslims should a gay parade take place in Moscow. The participants should expect to be beaten up. As a reason he gave the prophet Mohammed, who allegedly called for homosexuals to be killed because their activities lead to the extinction of humanity.

Tajuddin is a member of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations under the President of the Russian Federation , the Presidium of the Interreligious Council of Russia and the Interreligious Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States . He is considered the best expert on the Arabic language among the Russian muftis.

literature

  • Ruslan Kurbanov: "The Clerical Board of Russian Muslims. Contradictions and Developmental Dynamics." in Hans-Georg Heinrich, Ludmilla Lobova, Alexey Malashenko (eds.): Will Russia become a Muslim society? Lang, Frankfurt / Main, 2011. pp. 85-120. Here pp. 99-103.
  • Roman A. Silantjew : Islam w sovremennoj Rossii, enziklopedija . Algoritm, Moscow, 2008. p. 168.

Web links

Commons : Talgat Tajuddin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Cf. Roman A. Silantʹev : Novejšaja istorija islamskogo soobščestva Rossii. Ichtios, Moscow, 2006. pp. 433f.
  2. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 168.
  3. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 168.
  4. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 65b.
  5. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 168.
  6. ↑ a b c haGalil : Being gay and the Koran - How the Supreme Mufti of Russia threatens gays with death 2006
  7. ↑ Cf. Silantjew: Islam w sowremennoj Rossii . 2008, p. 168.
personal data
SURNAME Tajuddin, Talgat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Supreme Islamic dignitary (Grand Mufti) in the Russian Federation
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Kazan