The role of the mosque in achieving reconciliation between the Sufi and Salafi movements: Ingushetia as a case study

• Main Authors: Gapur, Oziev, Abdurahman, Obeid Hussein
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: BL Religion; BV1460 Religious Education
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/85156/1/Conference%20Programme%20Turkey%20October%202019.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/85156/7/85156%20slides.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/85156/

Starting from Hijra, mosque has played educational, edificatory social and political roles aimed at strengthening the brotherhood between Al-Muhajirin and Al-Ansar who jointly faced internal and external issues and challenges from opponents and neighboring states. The Prophet’s mosque brought the community under the umbrella of the following verse: “The mosques of Allah are only to be maintained by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and establish prayer and give zakah and do not fear except Allah, for it is expected that those will be of the [rightly] guided” (9:18). Today, more than ever, the need for the revival of the real mosque’s role has become indispensable for the sake of unifying the worshipers and achieving reconciliation and peaceful coexistence between rival movements.