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I am honored to submit to your attention the proposal dealing with the role of Sufism body of religious practices and Hanafi madhhab that hold a special place within the historical, cultural values of Uzbekistan in shaping Uzbek identity. Although these two systems belonging to Islam are rooted in the Early Middle Ages, they have been projecting special positive influence on the development of the Muslim world. Also, in the history of Uzbekistan that is an important part of the Central Asia, Sufism and Hanafi madhhab have established the principils of interconnection tying, enhancing relation between the state governance, economic life, and culture of citizens. The Sufi tariqas and Hanafi madhhab served to provide social justice in the state governance mechanism, strenthening humanism, contributing to the spiritual improvement of people. While based on the Islam Hanafi grounded the legal and economic mechanisms, Sufism developed cultural and spiritual aspects society.

Here, the special attentions is to be given to utilization of the logical rational method of the Ashab-ul-Rai school for analysis of the Islam Shari’a bases of Sufism and Hanafi. Rai – Ashab-ul-Rai – were adepts of independent thinking, the logical comparative thinking method was the lead in their discourse. Mastering of the methods secured the high clarity, impartiality, and deep observational approach in the sahih (authentic) parts of Hadiths. In the Central Asia, the methodological unity of Hanafi and its rational school Maturidia shaped the scientific, systemic institute in approaching the sources of Islam religion in this region. In the Hanafi madhhab, the logical methods are present allowing to prevent turning the bases of religion towards fanaticism and radicalism under human inflience, that secured progressive features of the religion of Islam in such areas as knowledge, economy, and gender relations. In the paper, the epistemological methods of cognition of Sufism and the Hanafi madhhab will be studied as a central problem.