THE MUSLIM CLERGY OF THE POST-SOVIET KABARDINO-BALKAR REPUBLIC: FORMATION, CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DEVELOPMENT, CURRENT STATUS OF THE SOCIAL GROUP
The subject of research is the Muslim clergy as a separate social group in the post-Soviet of the Kabardino-Balkarian society. Analyzed quantitative and qualitative composition of this group in the period from the end of the Soviet period to the present. Identifi ed factors which infl uence on the formation of the social group.