HERMENEUTIC POTENTIAL OF THE RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT OF THE CRIMEAN KHANATE

Abstract

Studying Crimean philosophy helps us better understand the Muslim worldview and modern changes in the Islamic world. These intellectual connections of southern Ukraine in the context of the challenges of the Russian- Ukrainian war are a crucial achievement for us. The integration of the intellectual culture of the Crimean Khanate within the framework of the Ukrainian national project brings us closer to numerous Islamic countries, and also expands the horizons of our own identity, because today Crimeans are an integral part of the Ukrainian political nation. On the path to full integration of Crimean society into the Ukrainian information space, we will need to deconstruct numerous Russian imperial myths, which have always been a way of legitimizing encroachments on the peninsula and a method of information warfare.As a European state with significant inclusion of the Turkic world, we face the need to explore the intellectualheritage of Crimea, integrate its spiritual achievements into the all-Ukrainian context, and implement Crimean philosophy as part of the general history of Ukrainian philosophy.The metacontext in which Crimean authors developed was the intellectual life of the Ottoman Empire, which was moving towards the modernization of the Islamic world along Western lines. The universal horizon of their interests was rational sciences, as well as appeals to sacred texts.The religious and philosophical heritage of the Crimean Khanate is an independent and integral tradition. It can be considered one of the most dynamic versions of post-classical Islamic philosophical thought. A thorough knowledge of the classics was combined here with innovative intellectual approaches. Thus, the Crimean Khanate was one of the powerful centers of Islamic spiritual and intellectual life of that period.