Japanese Nationalists and Russian Muslims in the Joint Pan-Asian Project: The Role of Abdurashid Ibragimov

Abstract

The article briefly presents the activity of the Russian Muslim leader Abdurashid Ibragimov as a pan-Islamic mediator in Japan. Largely due to his activities at the beginning of the 20th century, the idea of cooperation with Muslim peoples was strengthened among the pan-Asian circles of Japanese intellectuals. It is concluded that the Japanese state Muslim policy (kaikyō seisaku), conducted in the 1930s and 1940s, was formed with active cooperation with Muslim intellectuals, including A. Ibragimov.

Keywords

• pan-asianism
• pan-islamism
• russia
• japan
• abdurashid ibragimov