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Dzhemal commented on the [[Armenia]]n-[[Azerbaijan]]i [[Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Hasanov|first=A.|title=Heydar Jamal: By His London Speech Armenian President Announced His Consent to Withdraw From Azerbaijan's Occupied Lands|url=http://www.armeniandiaspora.com/showthread.php?216217-Heydar-Jamal-By-His-London-Speech-Armenian-President-Announced-His|accessdate=14 February 2014|newspaper=[[day.az]]|date=15 February 2010}}</ref>
Dzhemal commented on the [[Armenia]]n-[[Azerbaijan]]i [[Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Hasanov|first=A.|title=Heydar Jamal: By His London Speech Armenian President Announced His Consent to Withdraw From Azerbaijan's Occupied Lands|url=http://www.armeniandiaspora.com/showthread.php?216217-Heydar-Jamal-By-His-London-Speech-Armenian-President-Announced-His|accessdate=14 February 2014|newspaper=[[day.az]]|date=15 February 2010}}</ref>


Geydar Djemal died on December 5, 2016 in Almaty, not far from the place where he had first departed for his journey to the mountains.
Geydar Djemal died on December 5, 2016, in Almaty, not far from the place where he had first departed for his journey to the mountains.


In accordance with his will, he was buried in Baganashyl cemetery in the foothills of the Tien Shan.
In accordance with his will, he was buried in Baganashyl cemetery in the foothills of the Tien Shan.
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== Political analysis and philosophy ==
== Political analysis and philosophy ==
Dzhemal's religious and political analyses have been characterised in various ways. Some have seen it as an [[Islamic]] style of [[Marxism]], whereas others have linked his views to [[fundamentalist Islam]]. The names of his informational outlets (''[[Tawḥīd]]'' and ''Al-Waḥdat'', meaning "monotheism" and "unity") are key aspects of [[Salafism]]. He has attempted to bridge differences between [[Shiism]] and [[Sunnism]]; in 1999, Dzhemal emphasised the "inner spirit" of Shia Islam and the "outer" [[geopolitical]] dimension preserved in Sunnism, and claimed these differences were "already being washed away".<ref name="2017a"/>
Dzhemal's religious and political analyses have been characterized in various ways. Some have seen it as an [[Islamic]] style of [[Marxism]], whereas others have linked his views to [[fundamentalist Islam]]. The names of his informational outlets (''[[Tawḥīd]]'' and ''Al-Waḥdat'', meaning "monotheism" and "unity") are key aspects of [[Salafism]]. He has attempted to bridge differences between [[Shiism]] and [[Sunnism]]; in 1999, Dzhemal emphasized the "inner spirit" of Shia Islam and the "outer" [[geopolitical]] dimension preserved in Sunnism, and claimed these differences were "already being washed away".<ref name="2017a"/>


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Geydar Dzhemal
File:Geidar Dzhemal.jpeg
Born(1947-06-10)10 June 1947
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Died5 December 2016(2016-12-05) (aged 69)
Almaty, Kazakhstan
EducationMoscow State University (expelled)
Years active2011–2016
ChildrenOrhan Dzhemal
Kausar Dzhemal
Websitehttp://kontrudar.com/

Geydar Dzhahidovich Dzhemal (Template:Lang-ru, Template:Lang-az, sometimes transliterated as Heydar Jamal; 6 November 1947 – 5 December 2016) was a Russian Islamic activist, philosopher, poet, and political and social activist.

Dzhemal was the founder and chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia,[1] which is based on militant Salafism. He has advocated guerrilla resistance from Russia's Muslims against the state.[2]

Early life

Dzhemal was born 6 November 1947 in Moscow.[citation needed] His father was the famous Azerbaijani artist Dzakhid Dzemal, who is believed to be a descendant of Hulagu Khan. His mother was Irina Shapovalova (a well-known equestrian and horse trainer) descended from the noble Shepelev family. His parents divorced when he was very young, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents. Dzhemal's maternal grandfather, Igor Shapovalov, was a professor of German philosophy, as well as the director of the Maly Theatre and First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union.[3]

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".[4] He then took a job as an editor at "Medicine" Publishing House, where he met a graduate of the Moscow State University, 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 bohemian underground organisations (tusovka) associated with Yuri Mameleev (ru). Some members of these groups had access to secret collections of the All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature and brought works by a number of mystics and philosophers (including well-known esoterists Julius Evola and Alain de Benoist) to these discussions. Through Mameleev, these works became popular among an intellectual strain of Russian neo-Nazism.[3]

Under KGB pressure, the organisation disbanded; to escape compulsory military service, Dzhemal claimed to be schizophrenic and was sent to a psychiatric institution. In 1974, after Mameleev emigrated to the United States, Dzhemal together with Aleksandr Dugin (who Dzhemal later called "a brilliant thinker" and his "former disciple") gathered around philosopher Evgeniy V. Golovin, who established the "Black Order of the SS". In the late 1980s, both were members of the nationalist Pamyat society, but were excluded for alleged occultism.[3]

Foray into Islam

From 1980 he was a member of the Islamic movement of Tajikistan, and in 1990 joined with members of the underground organisations of the Caucasus and Volga regions of Russia in the formation of an umbrella Islamic Revival Party, which was active throughout the Soviet Union and whose leadership came from various Islamic traditions. The party alleged that only Soviet Muslims (Turks, Caucasians and Islamised Slavs) would allow the Soviet Union to be able to meaningfully oppose the West. During the Civil War in Tajikistan, Dzhemal worked as an advisor to Davlat Usmon, one of the founders of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan.[3]

In the Islamic Renaissance Party in Astrakhan he became a deputy chairman of the party.[citation needed] In the same year, he established an information centre Tawḥīd and launched the Islamic Russian-language newspaper Al-Waḥdat (Unity).[3] During the disintegration of the USSR, where centrifugal forces impacted political parties the Tajik branch of the IRP would be his next step where he assumed the position of Russian delegate at the Russian Center, a representative body within the party's central committee.[citation needed]

During the Tajik Civil War of 1992, he was appointed as a political advisor to Vice Premier of the Islamic Democratic Coalition Government lead by Davlat Usmon. He was a participant in the Popular Arab and Islamic Conference in Khartoum[3] and consecutively became a member of its permanent council. During his time in Khartoum, he became acquainted with Dr Hassan Al-Turabi, who requested he run the Islamic Committee of Russia. This is also when he began to produce TV series and films about Islam and philosophy, such as Now, All Koran Suras, and One Thousand and One Days.[citation needed]

From 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[3] 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. At this time Djemal was also establishing connections with Muslim organizations in Europe with headquarters located in Florence, Italy. The first meeting was held on December 1993. He maintained contacts 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 Ayatollah Khomeini, Ahmad.[3] In May 1994, Djemal's documentary, Islamic Republic of Iran, was broadcast by the Russian channels Pervij and The First creating a political scandal which resonated with Iran-phobic concerns in Russia.[citation needed]

In 1998, at the invitation of 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]

For 25 years, the scope of Djemal's activities involved the delivery of lectures and writing and publishing of articles of a wide range of topics and public commentaries on political and social events, as well as cooperating in various intellectual gatherings in Russia and abroad.[citation needed]

In 2011, on his initiative the intellectual club Florian Geyer was founded.[citation needed] In the early 1990s, Dzhemal put on a few TV shows on Islamic issues (Nyne (Today), Minaret, etc.).[3]

In 1998, Dzhemal did a lecture tour in South Africa. In 1999, at the Orthodox-Islamic conference in St. Petersburg he put forward the thesis of the possibility of an anti-imperialist strategic alliance between people of Islam and Orthodox Christianity's spirituality.[citation needed]

Dzhemal was among the 34 first signatories of an online anti-Vladimir Putin manifesto, "Putin Must Go", published on 10 March 2010.

Dzhemal commented on the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.[5]

Geydar Djemal died on December 5, 2016, in Almaty, not far from the place where he had first departed for his journey to the mountains.

In accordance with his will, he was buried in Baganashyl cemetery in the foothills of the Tien Shan.

On July 30, 2018, his son, journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, was killed along with film director Alexander Rastorguev and cameraman Kirill Radchenko while filming a documentary about the activities of illegal Russian military formations in the Central African Republic.[6]

Political analysis and philosophy

Dzhemal's religious and political analyses have been characterized in various ways. Some have seen it as an Islamic style of Marxism, whereas others have linked his views to fundamentalist Islam. The names of his informational outlets (Tawḥīd and Al-Waḥdat, meaning "monotheism" and "unity") are key aspects of Salafism. He has attempted to bridge differences between Shiism and Sunnism; in 1999, Dzhemal emphasized the "inner spirit" of Shia Islam and the "outer" geopolitical dimension preserved in Sunnism, and claimed these differences were "already being washed away".[3]

The modern world, in which imperialism has been replaced by what Dzhemal calls mundialization, has at its core conflict between transnational corporations and the government of the United States. The transnational corporations are run by a "superelite," which has its roots in European (and primarily British) aristocratic families. He believes that the events on September 11th are a grandiose provocation of superelite against the United States and the Islamic world. He has called Osama bin Laden and Taliban "creatures CIA" and Zionism together with the KGB, tools leading the superelite to domination over a planet.

In philosophy of religion, Dzhemal has drawn on the tradition of German Romanticism to distinguish the religion of prophets (which he sees as the religion of passionate expression) and the religion of priests. He believes that the prophets in the tradition of Abraham began from a position of creativity and novelty, while priests are always fierce advocates of tradition. True religion, Dzhemal believed is the religion of faith and death. Dzhemal did not accept all of the sects of Islam. He rejects Sufism, the Hashemite Islam of the Arab establishment and "the rule of the Turkic elements" that he believes has led to stagnation. Dzhemal claimed that there are three major "clubs" in the world: Liberal club, Traditional club and Radical club. He claimed that liberalism is retreating and soon shall be replaced by rising traditionalism. The radical club would be in opposition to both the liberal and traditional clubs. In his point of view, 50% minus 1 share of the world was owned by the Liberal club, 25% plus 1 share was owned by Traditional club, and the remaining 25% was owned by organized crime, the global Jewish community and international bureaucracies. His major followers are Russian journalist Maxim Shevchenko, Russian philosopher Ruslan Aisin and his son Orhan Dzhemal. The anthropology of Dzhemal is based on a dichotomy of a divine spark and "clay" in the person.

List of works

Year Title Publisher ISBN Language
1981 Orientation - North Ultra.Kultura ISBN 5-98042-018-5 Template:Ru icon
2003 The Revolution of the Prophets Ultra.Kultura ISBN 5-98042-018-5 Template:Ru icon
2004 Exemption of Islam UMMA ISBN 5-98587-006-5 Template:Ru icon
2004 A Window Into the Night. Poems Ekaterinburg: Ultra.Kultura ISBN 5-9681-0020-6 Template:Ru icon
2005 Islamic Intellectual Initiative in the 20th Century (under the general editorship of Mr. Dzhemal) UMMAH ISBN 5-98587-017-0 Template:Ru icon
2010 Dawud vs Jalut (David vs. Goliath) Social and Political Thought ISBN 978-5-91579-046-8 Template:Ru icon
2010 Wall of Zulkarnayn Social and Political Thought ISBN 978-5-91579-047-5 Template:Ru icon
2010 Fusils and Karamultuks Social and Political Thought ISBN 978-5-91579-040-6 Template:Ru icon

References

Главная | КОНТРУДАР || Гейдар Джемаль

  1. ^ Taratorin, Dimitry (July 26, 2004). Гейдар Джемаль "Власть берет человека на заметку" (in Russian). Новые Известия. Archived from the original on January 9, 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
  2. ^ Ragozin, Leonid (14 October 2005). "Russian Islam goes its own way". BBC Online. BBC News. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Sibgatullina, Gulnaz; Kemper, Michael (3 April 2017). "Between Salafism and Eurasianism: Geidar Dzhemal and the Global Islamic Revolution in Russia". Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations. 28 (2): 219–236. doi:10.1080/09596410.2017.1287485. ISSN 0959-6410.
  4. ^ Гейдар Джемаль (in Russian). Russian Expert Review. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
  5. ^ 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. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  6. ^ "Russia in Africa: Inside a military training centre in CAR". www.aljazeera.com.

Hereby websites created by Djemal. ПОИСТИНЕ — Концептуальный информационно-аналитический портал, Главная | КОНТРУДАР || Гейдар Джемаль.

YouTube channel «Гейдар Джемаль» has a collection of his videos Гейдар Джемаль

Following this link podcasts of his lectures can be found http://dzhemal.podfm.ru/geopolitika/

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