Derbisali, Absattar Bagisbaevich

Born September 15, 1947 on the farm to them. V. Kuibyshev of the Tulkubas district of the South Kazakhstan region .

In the period from 1970 to 1989 - trainee, graduate student, doctoral candidate at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences ; trainee of the University of Mohammed V in Morocco; Researcher at the M.O. Auezov Institute of Literature and Art, Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR .

From 1977 to 1997 - scientific work at the Kazakh State University. S. Kirov (now Kazakh National University named after al-Farabi).

In 1980 - 1991 he worked in senior positions in the Faculty of Philology and the Faculty of Oriental Studies created with his direct participation.

In 1988 - 1989, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philology and the title of professor.

Since 1991, he worked as vice-rector for languages ​​and international relations of Al-Farabi Kazakh State University.

From June 24, 2000 to February 19, 2013, the Supreme Mufti and chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kazakhstan.

At the IV-V conferences of the Eurasian Islamic Shura, held, respectively, in July 2000 in Sarajevo and in April 2002 in Cyprus , A. Derbisali was elected first deputy chairman of this organization.

Since 2013, he is the director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan ^[1] .

He is the author of more than 400 theoretical works and practical developments on the Arabic language and literature, the ancient periods of Kazakh literature and culture, spiritual relations of Kazakhstan with Muslim countries of the foreign East, as well as on the history of Islam, the Qur'an and the hadiths (sayings) of the Prophet Muhammad.

The results of numerous studies were presented at UN forums ( Seoul , 1995 ) and UNESCO ( Tashkent , 2000 ; Doha , 2001 ), as well as at universities and academies in Japan, India, Pakistan, China, Turkey, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco , Spain, USA and other countries.

• Order of Parasat ( 2004 ) ^[2]
• Order of Barys 2 degrees ( 2009 ) ^[3]
• Anniversary medal "10 years of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan" ( 2001 )
• Anniversary medal “10 years of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan” ( 2005 ) ^[4]
• Medal "20 years of independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan" ^[5]
• Order "Science and Art" I degree ( Egypt , 2002. For his services in founding the school of Arabic studies in Kazakhstan, for fundamental works in the field of Arabic philology and Islamic sciences )
• Order "Al-Fahr" I degree ( Council of Muftis of Russia , 2007 ) ^[6]
• Order of the Rising Sun , Golden Rays with a Neckband ^[7]

The election of Absattar Derbisali to the post of “Supreme Mufti of Kazakhstan” occurred in violation of the Charter of the SAMK, according to which the Mufti must work for 10 years in a mosque or other religious organization ^[8] . At kurultai, during which Derbisali became a mufti, senior officials were present. Because of this, some Muslims began to talk about the election of the mufti, "rigged" by government officials. Absattar Derbisali himself did not recognize this and made a public refutation ^[9] .

In 2012, Baktybay Ainabekov, the chairman of the religious association “Kazakhstan Kazakhstan”, appealed to the court with a request to ban Absattar Derbisali’s book “Arab биdebietі” ( Kazakh. “Arabic literature” ), published in 1982 (Mektep publishing house "). The reason for this was the atheistic criticism of Islam and the Koran, which is contained in this book ^[10] . According to Ainabekov, the content of the book offends the wives of the prophet , and the Qur'an is presented as the work of Muhammad himself. Supporters of Derbisali objected to the fact that the book was written during the era of Soviet censorship , and the plaintiff is engaged in " black PR " and in the past he broadcast a program called "Religion - Opium" ^[11] .