Yuriy Petrash

Kul't Svyatykh V Islame: Svyatost', Svyashchennoe I Svyatyni Yuriy Petrash Russian edition

Knigi pishutsya raznye: professional'nye, pouchitel'nye, belletristicheskie. I zhanry ikh tozhe raznye. Kniga, kotoruyu Vy derzhite v rukakh, vo mnogom neobychna. Eye soderzhanie ne pokhozhe na te, kotorye podvergayut islam i ego verouchenie libo «raznosu», libo tendentsioznoy apologetike. Avtor, ne prinadlezhit ni k tem, ni k drugim. Kak uchyenyy-islamoved, on zanimaet chyetkie nauchnye pozitsii. Imenno ob"ektivnyy podkhod k kharakteristike svyashchennogo v islame prokhodit krasnoy chertoy cherez vsye soderzhanie knigi. Avtor sozdal svoy trud ne v tishi bibliotek i kabineta. Imenno zhivaya praktika kontaktirovaniya s musul'manami v obshirnykh regionakh yavilas' glavnym poligonom nablyudeniy i sootvetstvennykh suzhdeniy o kul'te svyatykh v islame. Kavkaz, Pamir, Srednyaya Aziya i Ural, Balkany i Sibir' ? vot tot obshirnyy areal, kotoryy obsledoval uchyenyy-vostokoved. Znaniya vostochnykh yazykov i isklyuchitel'no uvazhitel'noe otnoshenie k verovaniyam musul'man vsyudu otkryvala uchyenomu dorogu k ponimaniyu ikh very i traditsiy. Predlagaemaya kniga nesomnenno rasshirit predstavleniya chitateley o verouchenii islama kak mirovoy religii. Vyrazhayu iskrennyuyu blagodarnost' redaktoru Aline Platonenko, s pomoshch'yu kotoroy vyshla eta kniga.