Verbalization of the worldview of Islam in the modern Russian media space: Linguistic and cognitive potential

The purpose of the study is to substantiate the linguistic and cognitive status of the Islamic worldview in the media space of modern Russia. Based on the material of Internet sites focused on the coverage of Islamic issues, it is determined that the foundation of the confessional picture of the world is a set of meanings that interact in a complex way with the national picture of the world expressed through the national language. The Russian Muslim community actively uses Russian along with Arabic, the language of the Holy Quran, which naturally complicates the characteristics of the Islamic worldview in Russia. The scientific novelty of the research lies in understanding the Islamic media discourse as a representative of the subcode of the Russian cultural code due to the use of the resources of the Russian language by the Islamic media along with Islamic terms – Arabisms, as well as lexical units borrowed from Farsi, Turkish and the national languages of the ethnic groups of the Russian Federation, traditionally professing Islam. As a result, it is proved that the Islamic media discourse effectively uses various formats and genres of modern media in order to provide an interested audience with relevant content. The picture of the world of Islam is verbalized in the Russian Islamic media discourse using various linguistic methods that allow us to reveal various aspects of all aspects of life – both religious and secular, including issues of law, ethics, commerce, finance. In the Russian media space, a new image of a modern Muslim is being formed – a Russian patriot and representative of the interests of the Russian Muslim community in accordance with the value and ethical dominants of the confessional worldview.