ON THE RESOLUTION OF THE 3rd ALL-RUSSIAN CONGRESS OF THE MUSLIMS IN 1906 DEVOTED TO THE REORGANIZATION OF CO-RELIGIONISTS’ SPIRITUAL AFFAIRS MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The article lists the main activities of 1905–1906, within the framework of which discussion of the Muslims’ public problems took place. Basing on the results of analyzing the program of the All-Russian party of Muslims “Ittifaq al-Muslim” (1906) concerning religious and national issues, it is summarized that it reflected the basic demands set out in the petitions of the Muslims in 1905 – demands for civil equality and advantage in status of Islamic religious institutions and the Spiritual Assembly. The main place in the article is devoted to the analysis of one of the most important resolutions of the III All-Russian Congress of the Muslims in 1906, devoted to the topic of reforming the management of co-religionists’ spiritual affairs in the all-Russian scale. It turned out that similar issues were discussed at the meeting of Ulemas held in Ufa on April 10–16, 1905, and at that time the answers to some of them were externalized in the draft charter of the religious management. However, the authorities ignored the draft charter of Orenburg Mohammedan spiritual assembly. During the analysis of the document’s text, sources of certain paragraphs of the congress resolution were revealed. It was found that some of the provisions were borrowed from the draft charter of Orenburg Mohammedan spiritual assembly and the ideas expressed at the meetings of Ufa Quriltai. This was also facilitated by the election of Kazan Mudarris Galimdzhan Barudi, a participant of Ufa Quriltai, as the chairman of the commission, which drafted this document, and availability of printed draft charter of Orenburg Mohammedan spiritual assembly for the participants of the congress. The article concludes that this document is a monument to the public thought of the Muslims of the period of the First Russian Revolution of 1905–1907, which represented the results of discussions of the Turkic peoples’ elites on this issue and identified the ways to reform the management of co-religionists’ spiritual affairs management.