Open AccessInterdisciplinary research on the concept of “Yajuj-Majuj” by Musa Bigiev
Author(s) -
Н. В. Ефремова
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
minbar. islamic studies/minbar. islamskie issledovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2712-7990
pISSN - 2618-9569
DOI - 10.31162/2618-9569-2020-13-1-117-134
Subject(s) - islam , meaning (existential) , epistemology , judaism , sociology , christianity , scientific terminology , biography , social science , history , philosophy , religious studies , theology , art history , physics , quantum mechanics
The article introduces the content of one of the little-known lifetime published works of an outstanding Tatar religious thinker Musa Jarullah Bigiev (1875-1949), which is devoted, in particular, to the study and disclosure of the meaning of the Quranic concept of Yajuj-Majuj. The facts from the biography of the scientist introduced into the scientific circulation provide a full disclosure of particular reasons for the appearance of the work under consideration. The research by M. Bigiev is based on a deep source study, on the results of comparative linguistics and cultural-historical analysis including religious books of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The author considers the inadmissibility of introducing the pre-Islamic ideas about the concept of Yajuj-Majuj into Islamic exegetics, and a number of other concepts that are accepted to be among the common heritage of Abrahamic religions; the paper emphasizes extreme importance of free thought; it draws attention to the role of Turks in the world history in its past, present and future; it makes a number of interesting inferences into the hidden meaning of a Quranic story about Yajuj-Majuj.