Paul
Goble
Staunton, April 16 – Five days after
the sudden death of Mufti Abudrakhman Murtazanov from the coronavirus, his
deputy Magomed Khastyrov has become acting mufti. The election of a new mufti
will take place only after the pandemic passes and conditions permit, officials
say (doshdu.com/ispolnjajushhim-objazannosti-muftija-ingushetii-stal-magomed-hashtyrov/).
Ismail Tsoroyev, the republic kady
who oversees the shariat court system in Ingushetia, says that Islamic
tradition establishes that a deputy takes over whenever a mufti dies unexpectedly.
Normally, elections are held promptly, but the pandemic makes that impossible
now.
Khastyrov, who was also deputy to
Murtazanov’s predecessor, has not taken independent positions on key issues;
but he has been prominent in denouncing the border deal between former republic
head Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and in appealing the
Ingush court decision banning the muftiate (kavkazr.com/a/musulmane-i-evkurov/29636895.html
and etokavkaz.ru/news/68390).
Somewhat ironically given his former
chief’s death from the coronavirus, Khastyrov also took the lead at the
muftiate in arranging for the closure of mosques and medressahs in the face of
the epidemic (stav.aif.ru/society/church/v_ingushetii_zakryli_mecheti_i_medrese_iz-za_koronavirusa).
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