Rizaeddin Fakhraddin (1859‒1936) on Model of State of the Modern Epoch

This article is devoted to the ideas of Rizaetdin Fakhretdin (1859‒1936) concerning the statehood of the Late Modern (19th century) period. His main theological work “Dini ve ijtimagy meseleler” (“Religious and Social Issues” (1914)) was devoted to the justification of the modernization reforms as well as to ways of their understanding from the Muslim point of view. R. Fakhraddin analyzed reforms of the political and legal system, the introduction of the Constitution, the construction of the rule of law, the creation of Parliament. He justified the necessity and legitimacy of these reforms from the point of view of the Qur’an and the Sunnah

Aesthetics · Constitution · Legitimacy · Modernization theory · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Islamic Studies and History · Islamic Thought and Society Studies · Law · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy