Formation of Islamic Education in Ingushetia: Local and Middle Eastern Aspects

In the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Republic of Ingushetia, a Russian province in the North Caucasus, experienced a significant increase in demand for Islam and related religious education. As a result of this growing demand, Islamic educational institutions, including higher schools, began to appear in the province. However, scholars hardly covered the issue of the emergence and development of the religious education in Ingushetia. At the same time, due to the anti-religious policy during the Soviet era, the links to the pre-revolutionary religious tradition were almost completely lost, and it was reborn anew. The religious education has been forming under entangled conditions. On the one hand, many Muslim scholars who had mastered Islamic sciences in the Middle East appeared there. On the other hand, the loss of previous socio-ideological guidelines in secular schools and universities has made adat, the traditional law, an important educational tool that coexists alongside the resurgent Islam.

Islamic education, adat, sharia, Ingushetia, Middle East