Strategies of Contemporary Islamic Studies

The events of recent years have led to a revision of the concept of "bipolar world". It became apparent that understanding the perspectives of world history through the concept of "formation", which was based on the theory of "classes" and "class struggle", lost its leading place in national history. Thus, the idea of ​​“comprehending history-” by comparing and analyzing different civilizations, whose models are built on the basis of different types of cultures and, above all, of different religions, becomes more promising. However, it should be noted not only a significant change in ideological paradigms in the understanding of modern realities, but also the common that unites them. A legacy left over from previous times and one of the dominant features of modern science is the consideration of development through conflict, collision, "unity and the struggle of opposites." It is this view that prevails in assessing our age as conflicting, which is explained by the dissimilarity of cultural traditions that are "rooted" in different religions. It is clear that similar explanations lead to disappointing predictions that are ambiguous in their consequences. The latter depend, in particular, on Ukraine's global environment: the postmodern super-civilization of the West - the post-industrial, post-Christian type, on the one hand, and the Islamic world of the Eastern Territories, on the other.