The role of the Russian state in the development of the educational system among the Muslim peoples of the North Caucasus (XIX century)

The article raises questions about the evolution of the Islamic education system in the North Caucasus throughout the nineteenth century. The aim of the work is to identify the forms of Muslim education in the North Caucasus, their transformation. When solving research problems, such general scientific methods as methods of analysis and synthesis, concretization, generalization were applied. The sources for the preparation of the article were archival calculations, statistical reports and descriptions, materials of the pre-revolutionary periodicals, regulatory and legal regulations, as well as modem scientific literature. The chronological framework of the study is due to the fact that it was in the 19th century that the innovation policy of the Russian Empire in the field of education in relation to the Muslim peoples of the peripheral regions was most vividly and vividly revealed. It is proved that throughout the XIX century there was a transformation of institutions that provide religious education. It was determined by the policy of the Russian administration in relation to Islam and Muslims in the North Caucasus. To this end, in 1847, the Caucasus Educational District was created, whose activity was to popularize education among the mountain peoples. Its functions consisted in the prolongation of Russian legislative standards relating to the opening of various types of educational institutions: schools, county schools, gymnasiums and gymnasiums. This system of education remained unchanged until 1917.