Geydar Dzhemal
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Geydar Dzhemal | |
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Born | |
Died | 5 December 2016 | (aged 69)
Education | Moscow State University (expelled) |
Years active | 1979–2016 |
Children | Orkhan Dzhemal Kausar Dzhemal |
Website | http://kontrudar.com/ |
Geydar Dzhahidovich Dzhemal (Russian: Гейда́р Джахи́дович Джема́ль, Azerbaijani: Heydər Cahid oğlu Camal, sometimes transliterated as Heydar Jamal; 6 November 1947 – 5 December 2016) was a Russian Islamic public figure, activist, philosopher, poet, political and social activist. He was the founder and chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia.[1]
He was also the Co-chairman and member of the Presidium of the Russian Social Movement "Russian Islamic Heritage",[2] permanent member of the Popular Arab and Islamic Congress,[3] one of the founders and a member of the Coordinating Council of the Left Front, member of The Other Russia. He took part in the Dissenters' March.[4]
Early life and education
Dzhemal was born on 6 November 1947 in Moscow.[
In 1965, after graduation from school, Dzhemal entered the Institute of Oriental Languages at Moscow State University, but a year later was expelled for "bourgeois nationalism".[6] He later took a job as an editor at the "Medicine" Publishing House, where he met a Moscow State University graduate, Ilya Moskvin. He worked at the "Medicine" as an editor and edited many books on psychiatry.[citation needed]
Activist history
In the 1960s and 1970s, Dzhemal joined a number of loosely-affiliated
Under
Foray into Islam
From 1980, he was a member of the Islamic movement of
In the Islamic Renaissance Party in
During the
Since 1995, the Islamic Council became affiliated with the Union of Muslims of Russia led by Nadirshakh Khachilaev.[citation needed] From 1996 he became advisor to Alexander Lebed[5] and cooperated with him and the Union of Patriotic and National Organisations of Russia to support a block on General Lebedev's presidential campaign.[citation needed]
While being a member of the Central Council СПНОР Djemal was an intermediary between Lebedev and Maskhadov during the First Chechen War. He established connections with Muslim organizations in Europe with headquarters[clarification needed] located in Florence, Italy. The first meeting was held in December 1993. He maintained contact with the British Muslim Council, the Islamic Parliament of the United Kingdom, and the Sorbonne Friends of Islam Club, created by Roger Garaudy and Rashid Benissa, the UNESCO Senior Inspector for Refugees.[citation needed]
In 1993, Djemal got acquainted with the son of the deceased
In 1998, he toured South Africa, giving lectures. At the invitation of Nelson Mandela's associate Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, Djemal went to South Africa to deliver a course of lectures on social anthropology and political philosophy at the University of Cape Town. For this course, he received an honorary doctorate at the University of Cape Town.[citation needed]
In 1999, at the
For 25 years, Djemal gave lectures, wrote and published articles on a wide range of topics and public commentaries on political and social events, and cooperated in various intellectual gatherings in Russia and abroad.[citation needed]
In 2010 Dzhemal commented on the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[7] He was also among the 34 first signatories of an online anti-Vladimir Putin manifesto, "Putin Must Go", published on 10 March 2010.
In 2011, Dzhemal founded the intellectual club Florian Geyer.[citation needed]
Geydar Djemal died on 5 December 2016 in Almaty.
In accordance with his will, he was buried in Baganashyl cemetery in the foothills of the Tien Shan.
On 30 July 2018, his son, journalist Orkhan Dzhemal , was killed along with film director and cameraman while filming a documentary about the activities of a Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group in the Central African Republic.[8]
Religious views
The Islamic scholar
The Internet portal "Voice of Islam" said.[9]
- in the last years of his life Heydar, by the grace of Allah, made a sharp and difficult turn for him in moral and intellectual respect - to his umma, what it is and what it was throughout its history. Being for many years not just a Shia, but the most striking and convincing Russian-speaking Shia, he realized in the midst of Jihad in Sham that Shia and Shi'ism had become a force against Islam and umma, made a decisive choice in favor of the latter. This choice was especially valuable, given what was being done at a time when Heydar already knew that he was seriously ill and perhaps realized that his earthly path was running out.
Jamal himself said on his official website in 2008,[10] "To once and for all remove any questions that arise in the brothers," that he supported "the Quran and the authentic Sunnah of the Prophet" and "the complete and inseparable theological and political unity of all Muslims on the platform of jihad in the path of Allah until all religion on earth belongs to Him Alone," that he did not follow any living Shiite Mujtahids, that he rejected "pantheism and the Sufi Aqeedah based on it and the teachings of Muhammad ibn al-Arabi, which is the basis of the Irfan of the Kum theological school" and that he did "NOT curse any of the Rashidun" and that
- "in all directions of Islam, created by sincere Muslims making efforts in the way of Allah, except for misconceptions, there is also a grain of truth, which will be demanded in the 73rd direction/sect, designed to carry out the complete victory of Muslims over Dajjal under the leadership of the expected Mahdi (and on the arrival of Mahdi is agreed upon by all sects of the Muslims!)"
Political analysis and philosophy
Dzhemal's political analyses have been characterized in various ways. Some have seen it as an
List of works
Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN | Language |
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1981 | Orientation - North Archived 21 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine | Ultra.Kultura | ISBN 5-98042-018-5 |
(in Russian) |
2003 | The Revolution of the Prophets | Ultra.Kultura | ISBN 5-98042-018-5 |
(in Russian) |
2004 | Exemption of Islam | UMMA | ISBN 5-98587-006-5 |
(in Russian) |
2004 | A Window Into the Night. Poems | Ekaterinburg: Ultra.Kultura | ISBN 5-9681-0020-6 |
(in Russian) |
2005 | Islamic Intellectual Initiative in the 20th Century (under the general editorship of Mr. Dzhemal) | UMMAH | ISBN 5-98587-017-0 |
(in Russian) |
2010 | Dawud vs Jalut (David vs. Goliath) | Social and Political Thought | ISBN 978-5-91579-046-8 |
(in Russian) |
2010 | Wall of Zulkarnayn | Social and Political Thought | ISBN 978-5-91579-047-5 |
(in Russian) |
2010 | Fusils and Karamultuks | Social and Political Thought | ISBN 978-5-91579-040-6 |
(in Russian) |
References
- ^ "Биография | КОНТРУДАР || Гейдар Джемаль".
- ISBN 978-5-9265-0467-2.
- ^ Кагарлицкий Б. Ю. Гейдар Джемаль. Освобождение ислама // Журнал: «Критическая Масса». — 2005. — № 2. https://web.archive.org/web/20120723063928/http://www.archipelag.ru/authors/djemal/?library=2811
- ^ "Джихад с Джемалем Главу Исламского комитета России обвинили в призывах к терроризму".
- ^ S2CID 151748438.
- ^ Гейдар Джемаль (in Russian). Russian Expert Review. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
- ^ Hasanov, A. (15 February 2010). "Heydar Jamal: By His London Speech Armenian President Announced His Consent to Withdraw From Azerbaijan's Occupied Lands". day.az. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^ "Russia in Africa: Inside a military training centre in CAR". www.aljazeera.com.
- ^ [golosislama.com/news.php?id=30666 Гейдар Джемаль покинул этот мир]. Голос Ислама. Дата обращения 6 декабря 2016.
- ^ Заявление о сути моей исламской позиции // Контрудар, 03.10.2008
External links
- Personal website for Geydar Dzhemal (in Russian)
- Geydar Dzhemal on YouTube
- Conceptual Club "Floryan Gayer" Geydar Dzhemal's think tank
- Archive of Dzhemal's blog at LiveJournal (in Russian)
- Bekkin, Renat (2012). "Russian Muslims: A Misguided Sect, Or The Vanguard Of The Russian Umma?". In Alfrid K. Bustanov and Michael Kemper (ed.). Islamic Authority And the Russian Language: Studies On Texts From European Russia, the North Caucasus And West Siberia (PDF). Amsterdam: Pegasus. pp. 361―401.