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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">religion</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2073-7203</issn><issn pub-type="epub">2073-7211</issn><publisher><publisher-name>РАНХиГС</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">religion-534</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>VARIA</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>VARIA</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>«Если это для тебя благо, Аллах тебе это даст»: истихара в предпринимательской практике российских мусульман</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>“If It’s Good for You, Allah will Give it to You”: Istikhara in the Business Practice of Russian Muslims</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6019-8248</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Крапивин</surname><given-names>И. С.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Krapivin</surname><given-names>I. S.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Илья Сергеевич Крапивин — аспирант</p><p>Санкт­-Петербург</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Ilya S. Krapivin — PhD student</p><p>Saint Petersburg</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">krapivin585@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru">Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге<country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">European University at Saint Petersburg<country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>10</day><month>04</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>44</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>123</fpage><lpage>152</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Крапивин И.С., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Крапивин И.С.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Krapivin I.S.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://religion.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/534">https://religion.ranepa.ru/jour/article/view/534</self-uri><abstract><p>В статье на основе этнографического материала, собранного среди предпринимателей-мусульман в 2023–2025 годах в Москве, Санкт-Петербурге, Татарстане и Дагестане, анализируется мусульманская практика истихара как способ работы с неопределенностью при принятии экономических и жизненных решений. C опорой на концепцию семиотических идеологий в статье показано, что истихара принимает различные формы как ритуального, так и семиотического характера. В работе выделяются три аналитически различимых семиотических режима истихары: гадательный, герменевтико-процессуальный и нормативноэтический. Каждый из них по-разному задает допустимые способы «чтения» божественных знаков и по-разному структурирует неопределенность будущего — от делегирования решения ритуалу до отказа от семиотизации происходящего. Важное место в исследовании отведено понятию блага, соотносимому с концепцией бараката — к этим категориям обращаются информанты для описания последствий принятых ими решений, что позволяет им осмыслять неудачи и провалы как часть божественного замысла. В заключение статья предлагает рассматривать истихару как способ существовать в условиях неопределенности за счет делегирования ответственности божественному предопределению.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article, based on ethnographic material collected among Muslim entrepreneurs in 2023–2025 in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Tatarstan, and Dagestan, analyzes the practice of istikhara as a way of dealing with uncertainty when making economic and life decisions. Relying on the concept of semiotic ideologies, the article demonstrates that istikhara takes various forms, both ritual and semiotic. The study distinguishes three analytically distinct semiotic regimes of istikhara: divinatory, hermeneutic-procedural, and normative-ethical. Each of them differently defines permissible ways of “reading” divine signs and differently structures the uncertainty of the future — from delegating the decision to the ritual to refusing the semiotization of events. An important place in the study is given to the concept of good (blago), correlated with the concept of barakat (blessing) — informants refer to these categories to describe the consequences of their decisions, which allows them to interpret failures and setbacks as part of the divine plan. In conclusion, the article proposes to view istikhara as a way of existing in conditions of uncertainty by delegating responsibility to divine predestination.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>неопределенность</kwd><kwd>семиотические идеологии</kwd><kwd>ислам в России</kwd><kwd>повседневная религия</kwd><kwd>истихара</kwd><kwd>предопределение</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>uncertainty</kwd><kwd>semiotic ideologies</kwd><kwd>Islam in Russia</kwd><kwd>everyday religion</kwd><kwd>istikhara</kwd><kwd>predestination</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Панченко А., Хонинева Е. «Семиотические идеологии», медиальность и современная антропология религии // Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом. 2019. № 37 (4). C. 7–18. 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