G. R. BALTANOVA Doctor of Philosophy, Kazan State Power Engineering University Keywords: Islamic State, caliphate, jihad, sharia, fiqh, hadith, ayat, kufr The "open letter" to Dr. Ibrahim Awwad al-Badri (aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), fighters and followers of the self - proclaimed Islamic State (IS), written on September 19, 2014,1 is a kind of manifestation of the modern understanding of official theologians and spiritual leaders of such important concepts of Islam as "caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "Caliphate", "caliphate" and "caliphate". "caliph", "jihad", "Islamic state", "Sharia", "Fiqh", "Kufr", etc. The letter was signed by 126 Muslim leaders of global significance, including deans and professors of the most influential Islamic universities, such as al-Azhar, Cairo University, Tanta, al-Mansoura (Egypt), Al - Bayt (Jordan), Aukaf (Yemen); muftis of such countries as Bulgaria, Kosovo, Uzbekistan; heads of major Islamic associations, faqihs (lawyers). We will immediately make a reservation that we will not give an assessment of military activities, crimes, public speeches of IR leaders, as well as those chilling videos that have flooded the Internet. Also, we will not touch on such a complex issue as the participation of Western and Eastern countries and organizations in the emergence of the IG, the sources of funding for the group. At the moment, it is hardly possible to obtain complete objective information on these issues. It is quite obvious that foreign aid has not been dispensed with here. It is also obvious that the "sponsors" could hardly have guessed what kind of genie they were releasing from the bottle. We plan to conduct this analysis later in another publication. The purpose of this article is to identify ideological contradictions between leading scholars (ulema) and the leaders of IG 2 on ... Read more