Jemal Heydar is a well-known public figure who promotes Islamic principles in Russia. He is one of the leaders of the now popular organization called "Russian Islamic Heritage". He was the founder of the coordinating council of the Left Front and its active participant.
Heydar Jemal: biography of early years
Heydar Dzhakhidovich Dzhemal was born in the Russian capital Moscow on November 6, 1947. His father was Jahim Dzhemal and his mother was Irina Shapovalova. The family was international, as the head of the family was a full-blooded Azerbaijani, and his wife was Russian (though with Caucasian roots).
Great contribution to Heydar's upbringing was made by his grandfather, who took the boy to him after his parents divorced. It was he who instilled in him a love for philosophy and Islam, which in the future will determine who Jemal Heydar will become.
After graduating from school, Jemal enters one of the most respected universities in Moscow at that time - the Institute of Oriental Languages at MGI. But unfortunately, his studies there did not last long, since in the second year he was expelled for an unacceptable ideology. Therefore, at the end of 1966, Jemal Heydar got a job as a proofreader in the publishing house of the journal "Medicine". There he makes new acquaintances, thanks to which he ends up in a circle on Yuzhinsky (a well-known reading club that practiced the occult sciences).
World of Islam
New acquaintances from the esoteric club helped to finally shape Heydar's worldview. Thanks to this, by the end of the 70s, he became very close to well-known Islamic public figures. Such communication led to the fact that soon Jemal Heydar himself began to actively promote Muslim principles on the territory of the USSR.
Because of this behavior, until 1989, he was registered with the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. At the same time, he was credited with schizophrenia and disability of the second group. But with the advent of perestroika, his precarious position changed.
So, in 1990 he creates a new party of Islamic revival in Astrakhan. And in 1991, he began to print his own newspaper, Al-Wahdat.
In 1993, he founded the all-Russian movement "Islamic Committee" and around the same period began to host a number of television programs dedicated to the traditions of Muslims.
Since 2000, he has been an ardent opponent of the current political system in Russia. It even got to the point that in 2010 Heydar would sign the opposition petition “Putin must go.”
Jemal Heydar today
Currently Jemal is an active public figure and propagandist of Islam. He has several published books to his credit. Muslim world, as well as many similar articles on his personal website and blog.
He also opposes any tyranny in power, which causes a certain reaction from officials. So, he has been repeatedly accused of extremism, but so far none of them has been proven in practice.
