Russia’s Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions
Year: 2019

Geidar Dzhemal was arguably the best-known mouthpiece of radical Islam in the contemporary Russia media world: with his broad erudition in Western philosophy, Abrahamic theology and world history, he easily upstaged most official representatives of Islam in the country. While his Islamic project borrowed heavily from Marxist thinking, Dzhemal’s non-conformist teaching and his personal charisma also made him famous among right-wing thinkers, who see him as the ‘Godfather’ of Russian converts to I