With great interest and with considerable benefit, the reader can get acquainted with the book by S. A. Voronin "Islam, nationalism and power "(Moscow, "Labyrinth", 2009). The subject of the author's research is the correlation of Islam, nationalism and political power in the East against the background of the history and evolution of political leadership in the Islamic world since the mid-19th century. to this day. Maxime Rodinson, a French sociologist and Islamic scholar, wrote in the preface to his book Islam and Capitalism (Moscow, 1966): "Most often, authors are reproached for not doing what they did not intend to do in their research." I foresee that S. Voronin will be reproached for abandoning the usual division of political regimes into three classical types: authoritarian, totalitarian and democratic, which has already become generally recognized in historical science and political science. But he didn't seem to be looking for the easy and well-trodden paths. The author has developed an innovative methodology for studying the phenomenon of political leadership in the Muslim East, based on factors ignored by the generally accepted classical typology of political regimes. He pays primary attention to the study of ideological (state-nationalism and Islamism) doctrines of legitimization based on the specifics of mass consciousness and political culture in the Islamic world, carefully analyzing the degree of penetration of Islam into basic mental values. Taking into account these factors, as well as the methods of legitimizing leadership, taken by the author as criteria for typologizing political regimes in the Muslim East, allowed him to give a classification of these regimes that is fundamentally different from the classical scheme. As the monograph convincingly shows, the specifics of political leadership in the Islamic world are determined by the nature of mass consciousness and the level of development of political culture, and the degree of penetration of ... Читать далее