date: 2023-06-23T07:42:46Z pdf:unmappedUnicodeCharsPerPage: 0 pdf:PDFVersion: 1.7 pdf:docinfo:title: Prospects for Higher Shia Religious Education in Post-Soviet Countries xmp:CreatorTool: LaTeX with hyperref Keywords: religious education; Shia/Shi?ism; Islamic education; Islam in post-Soviet countries; Islam in Central Asia; Islam in Russia access_permission:modify_annotations: true access_permission:can_print_degraded: true subject: The opportunity to receive religious education plays an important role in the formation of the religious elite of society. It forms the Muslim clergy, which, in turn, represents this community in front of other members of society. Their statements directly affect the attitude of non-Muslims towards the members of this community, which is very important, especially in the cases where Muslims are a minority, and Shi?ites, in turn, are a minority in all post-Soviet countries except Azerbaijan. The Shia communities of the post-Soviet region are little studied in general. Analysing their specifics, one can see that almost all the clerics of these communities received religious education in Iran and/or Iraq, while the Sunni clerics of the same countries most often studied in their homeland. This problem in the aspect of comparing Sunni and Shia education, as well as the past (starting from the USSR times), the present and the future of Shia higher religious education were studied in this paper. dc:creator: Akif Tahiiev dcterms:created: 2023-06-23T07:40:35Z Last-Modified: 2023-06-23T07:42:46Z dcterms:modified: 2023-06-23T07:42:46Z dc:format: application/pdf; version=1.7 title: Prospects for Higher Shia Religious Education in Post-Soviet Countries Last-Save-Date: 2023-06-23T07:42:46Z pdf:docinfo:creator_tool: LaTeX with hyperref access_permission:fill_in_form: true pdf:docinfo:keywords: religious education; Shia/Shi?ism; Islamic education; Islam in post-Soviet countries; Islam in Central Asia; Islam in Russia pdf:docinfo:modified: 2023-06-23T07:42:46Z meta:save-date: 2023-06-23T07:42:46Z pdf:encrypted: false dc:title: Prospects for Higher Shia Religious Education in Post-Soviet Countries modified: 2023-06-23T07:42:46Z cp:subject: The opportunity to receive religious education plays an important role in the formation of the religious elite of society. It forms the Muslim clergy, which, in turn, represents this community in front of other members of society. Their statements directly affect the attitude of non-Muslims towards the members of this community, which is very important, especially in the cases where Muslims are a minority, and Shi?ites, in turn, are a minority in all post-Soviet countries except Azerbaijan. The Shia communities of the post-Soviet region are little studied in general. Analysing their specifics, one can see that almost all the clerics of these communities received religious education in Iran and/or Iraq, while the Sunni clerics of the same countries most often studied in their homeland. This problem in the aspect of comparing Sunni and Shia education, as well as the past (starting from the USSR times), the present and the future of Shia higher religious education were studied in this paper. pdf:docinfo:subject: The opportunity to receive religious education plays an important role in the formation of the religious elite of society. It forms the Muslim clergy, which, in turn, represents this community in front of other members of society. Their statements directly affect the attitude of non-Muslims towards the members of this community, which is very important, especially in the cases where Muslims are a minority, and Shi?ites, in turn, are a minority in all post-Soviet countries except Azerbaijan. The Shia communities of the post-Soviet region are little studied in general. Analysing their specifics, one can see that almost all the clerics of these communities received religious education in Iran and/or Iraq, while the Sunni clerics of the same countries most often studied in their homeland. This problem in the aspect of comparing Sunni and Shia education, as well as the past (starting from the USSR times), the present and the future of Shia higher religious education were studied in this paper. 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