Pre- Islamic religious beliefs and Islam among Bashkirs

Islam as an integral part of the history and culture of the Bashkir people had a significant impact on the growth of its national consciousness, played ethnoconsolidation role against external violence, determined the specific spiritual path. The shariat standards and the muslim legislation joined the social life of Bashkirs together with islam. Many institutions of patriarchal tribal system of Bashkirs still remained and as a result there is some kind of synthesis of shariat and adapt - standards of customary law. The Bashkir variant of Islam has its own characteristics that distinguish it from Orthodox Islam of the Middle East. A number of specific characteristics are distinguished: firstly the separation of power and religion, weak political expression of the Muslim beliefs, and secondly, insufficient development of the economic principles of the existence of the Muslim community, thirdly, the preservation of relics of pre-Islamic beliefs among the Bashkirs until the twentieth century.