Writed by 2'nd year student of International Information Technology University Uzairullaev Bakhodir
Professor: Masanov Erkin
Once in exile in Europe, the Kazakh politician Mustafa Shokay realized himself in many ways: as a writer, analyst, communicator. His circle of friends included famous German and French scientists, historians and philosophers. In 1941 Mustafa Shokay in article "Turkestan" made a brilliant analysis of the book, which mentioned the smart city model of al-Farabi. Shokai defended a humanistic the essence of the teachings of al-Farabi. The author of the article draws attention to the fact that Shokai made an attempt to participate in a scientific discussion and argued your opinion. He strongly denied the existence of similarities between the teachings of al- Farabi and Nietzsche. M. Shokai's friends highly appreciated and published the article after his death.
The relevance of the topic of religion and worldview, the search for the ideal and violence, terrorism is obvious. Human thought is extremely virtuous. In the 21st century, political scientists often resort to justifying extremism, finding the roots of the problem in a particular faith. Dangerous confrontation ISIS and civilians in Syria are sometimes used to blame the entire Muslim Ummah in aggressive tendencies. So selective the approach causes natural indignation on the part of sane persons and humanists.
History of the 20th century for the Kazakh national intelligentsia is very instructive. The advanced elite of Central Asia took on themselves the burden of responsibility for the fate of the nation-state. It turned out, that even the intellectual heritage needs protection from attacks, and namely: the teaching of the medieval philosopher of Turkic origin al- Farabi about a smart city. Caught in forced emigration in Europe, Kazakh politician Mustafa Shokay managed to prove himself as self-possessed communicator and popularizer of the Turkic cultural heritage, in particular al-Farabi. He maintained friendly ties with various social layers, media editors, his circle of contacts included well-known French scientists, historians, philosophers. Pages of the life and struggle of the Kazakh emigrant Mustafa Shokay steel available to us when examining his archive. Note that foreign archives, thanks to the will of the President of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev, copy and transmit part of the funds donated to domestic researchers. State support in researching the past certainly plays a big role. Knowledge of European languages allowed M. Shokai to get acquainted with works on philosophy and, in particular, his contemporary interpretation of the role, emerging before his eyes, fascism. So, a book came into his field of vision researcher Baron Carr de Vaux, in which the author (not very correct) made a reference to the teachings of al-Farabi, as an adherent of Nietzscheism.
Moreover, K. de Vaux drew a parallel between the ideal society of al-Farabi and - the "superman" of the German philosopher Nietzsche. It is known that in that historical period protection was required (apology) the actual role of historical science. French historian of Jewish origin, together with Lucien Febvre, who established Annals magazine (1929), one of the founders of the school of the same name, revolutionized historical methodology, Mark Blok wrote a work "Apology of history", the meaning of which is still relevant. Approximately the same intellectual problem was solved by Mustafa Shokay, who found himself in the epicenter of the European political process. In the conditions of fascist agitation, on the eve of World War, such slippery hints were immediately picked up by stakeholders and could "work" for the Wehrmacht. (Modern scholars of Islam distinguish offshoots promoting extremism. It would be sad if they will look for the roots of the phenomenon in the teachings of the Neoplatonists. Unfortunately, in years The Cold War, this trend was even encouraged, which takes science away from truth). As a professional lawyer (graduate of the St. University), a fighter for truth, Mustafa Shokay immediately noticed ambiguity and expressed his attitude towards the published. His records, dating back to 1941, later saw the light in the magazine "Yash Turkestan", in Russian. His friends and associates posthumously published an article under heading "Turkestan" Shokay M. in the December issue of 1949/1950.