MAGIC IN OSSETIAN FOLK ISLAM AT THE TURN OF THE XIX-XX CENTURIES. ACCORDING TO NARRATIVE SOURCES

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Home Editorial board Publication ethics Current Information Archive Peer review guidelines Contacts Address: Pr. Mira, 10, Vladikavkaz, 362040, RNO-A, Russia E-mail: soigsi@mail.ru	DOI: 10.46698/VNC.2024.93.54.002 MAGIC IN OSSETIAN FOLK ISLAM AT THE TURN OF THE XIX-XX CENTURIES. ACCORDING TO NARRATIVE SOURCES Ktsoeva, Sultana G. Izvestia SOIGSI. 2024. IIS 54 (93). P.25-37. Abstract: The central problem of this study is the identification and historical analysis of elements of magic in Ossetian folk Islam at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The concept of “Ossetian folk Islam” is defined and its features are identified. The socio-historical and cultural factors in the formation of the specific religious worldview of the Muslim part of Ossetian society in the specified period are determined. Within the framework of the undertaken study, using the method of critical reading of historical sources, an analysis of selected descriptions of magical practices in religious rites that existed in the Muslim part of Ossetia is carried out. The article examines cases of agricultural (on the occasion of calling for rain), funeral, healing and other types of magic, separating the “Islamic” from the “non-Islamic” in some cases of ritual practice. The method of historicism serves as the main methodological approach to studying the problem. Due to the fact that this study is synchronic, it is carried out within the framework of the structuralism of K. Levi-Strauss, according to which all cultural systems (language, mythology, religion, art, customs, traditions) are studied as sign systems. The scientific relevance of the study is due to the critically small number of studies on the designated problem. In turn, the social relevance of the topic is determined by the steady growth of society’s interest in the historical roots and problems of its own religious self-identification. The main source base for this study was made up of periodical press materials containing notes and essays that illustrate various fragments of the life of traditional Ossetian societies that professed Islam in the period under review. Keywords: magic; folk Islam; religion of the Ossetians at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries; narrative sources. Download the full text For citation:: Ktsoeva, S.G. Magic in Ossetian folk Islam at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries according to narrative sources // Izvestiya SOIGSI. 2024. Iss. 54 (93). Pp.25-37. (in Russian). DOI 10.46698/VNC.2024.93.54.002 + References 1. Ktsoeva, S.G. 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