DISSEMINATION OF EXPERIENCE IN INSTITUTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN TERMS OF FOREIGN RELATIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA, TURKEY AND CENTRAL ASIA

Abstract

One of the characteristics of modern society, more and more susceptible to increasing secularization, is a process of social integration of the two most important institutions: religion serving the needs of people in order to solve their spiritual problems, and education designed to satisfy human givens of knowledge and competency. This article deals with the existing experience of organizing Islamic education (the cases of Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and others Central Asian countries), including collaboration be-tween Muslim religious organizations and various institutions of the secular state. The author makes a conclusion that the efforts in disseminating the experience of organizing Islamic education in countries with large Muslim population may serve the purposes of the secular state, reinforce spiritual sovereignty of the state and its national security in cooperation with socially important religious organizations; on the other hand, it has a destructive potential, capable of creating a threat through the system of education to spiritual and political unity of multi-religious society.