Muslim Education in the Modern Educational Space: State and Assessment (on the Example of the Mosque Schools of Dagestan)
The article examines the problem of Islamic education in modern Russian society. The increase in scientific interest in the issues of religious education is due to objective and subjective factors, such as the transformation of the foundations of Russian society, which naturally contributed to an increase in the mass consciousness of the importance of belief in supernatural forces. In other words, atheistic ideology was replaced by religious consciousness as an opportunity to fill the resulting vacuum. Of course, the religious revival had not only positive, but also negative consequences for Russian society, which were expressed in the manifestation of radical ideas in the public consciousness of the population. The author's sociological study of the initial segment of Muslim education has shown that the main reason for the increase in the importance of Muslim education lies in the observed revival of Islamic doctrine, respectively, and the strengthening of the role of non-Muslim clergy in Russian society. The results of the study show the prevalence in the positions of the surveyed expert community of judgments about the need to license the initial segment of Muslim education, however, on the aggregate of the two judgments, the opposite position dominates, which is against the introduction of the need for maktabs to have a license to carry out educational activities.