Heydar Jemal died

In Alma-Ata, at the age of 69, the chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia Heydar Dzhemal died. This was reported on his official Facebook page.

"Tonight, the mercy of the Almighty Heydar Jemal ended his earthly path," the report said.

Information about Jemal's death was confirmed by journalist Maxim Shevchenko. According to him, the philosopher and theologian "was ill and long."

Jemal is the co -chair and member of the Presidium of the All -Russian Public Movement "Russian Islamic Heritage", one of the initiators of the creation and member of the Coordinating Council of the Left Front, the author of six books on theology and philosophy. He repeatedly took part in the marsh of disagreements.

Jemal was born in 1947 in Moscow. In 1965 he entered the Institute of Oriental Languages ​​at Moscow State University, but a year later he was expelled. He worked as a turner, a tutor, and then got a corrector at the Medicine Publishing House.

In the early 1970s, Jemal entered the so-called Yuzhinsky circle, where he met Yuri Mamleev, Evgeny Golovin and Alexander Dugin. At the end of 1988, Jemal, along with Dugin, joined the Memory Society, becoming a member of the Coordinating Council, but was excluded later. Since 1989, he took part in Islamic political activity in the USSR.

From 1993 to 1996, Heydar Dzhemal led the Islamic section in the programs "now" on Channel One, "All the Suras of the Qur'an" on the Culture and "Thousand and One Day" channel on the RTR channel.

In the election of deputies of the State Duma in 1999, he tried to go according to the list of the political bloc "Movement in support of the army." In March 2010, he signed the appeal "Putin must leave."

On March 27, 2012, the FSB operatives searched in two apartments of Jemal for storage of extremist literature. The FSB press service explained that the philosopher is suspected of "public justification of terrorism, as well as public calls for extremist and terrorist activities." The case on Jemal was instituted under articles 205.2 (public calls for terrorism) and 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism).