Power Society and Religion

The book is dedicated to very urgent and important issue of today-relationship of power, society, and religion. Following his five-year work experience as chairman of the State Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the Work with Religious Associations, the author tries to argue the view that these three vital components of public life not only interact, but they are also interdependent and intercorporated. The author thinks that their deep-laid relations represent logical bases in maintenance of the balance of power in society as whole.

Rafig Aliyev, doctor of philosophy, professor, founder of IRSHAD Center on Islamic Studies since 1990, was born in Agdam region of Azerbaijan in 1947. Worked as head of department, deputy director on foreign relations at the Institute on Oriental Studies, director of the center for Islamic Researches in the Caucasus of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. From June 21, 2001 to June June 26, 2006, he headed the State Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan for the Work with Religious Associations. Since June 27, 2006, R. Aliyev has worked as director of the Center on Islamic Studies. He is a member of World Peace Academy of Professors, international interreligious committee. Author of 16 books and more than 250 scientific articles. Married, has two children.