LEV TOLSTOY

[uzbek]

so who exactly knows?
Did he ever accepeted Isalam or not?

[voltaire-]

Dunno personally.

But anyway hos geldin Uzbek

V

[uzbek]

Originally posted by voltaire-
Dunno personally.

But anyway hos geldin Uzbek

V

hos bulduk Volt.

[Tugay-bey]

I really doubt,that any ak-kulak ever could really accept Islam.They tend to take on one or the other fanatical sect(like the Askers).The REAL understanding of the Holy Quaran somehow escapes them.
Anyway,wich part of Uzbekstan are you from?I have my Army buddy,still living in Fergana.In 1992 I've visited him there.Best two month of my life,I can remember! I've also spent some time in Samarkand.Beutifull citi(I mean,the old parts,not the "modern" Soviet),ain't it?
Khose gheldin,Uzbek!(sorry,dude,my Turc is VERY rusty,I can bearly understand it,let along speack)

[fodox]

[quote]Originally posted by uzbek
so who exactly knows?
Did he ever accepeted Isalam or not?

“As far as the preference of Mohammedanism to Orthodoxy is concerned…, I can fully sympathize with such conversion. To say this might be strange for me who values the Christian ideals and the teaching of Christ in their pure sense more that anything else, I do not doubt that Islam in its outer form stands higher than the Orthodox Church. Therefore, if a person is given only two choices: to adhere to the Orthodox Church or Islam, any sensible person will not hesitate about his choice, and anyone will prefer Islam with its acceptance of one tenet, single God and His Prophet instead such complex and incomprehensible things in theology as the Trinity, redemption, sacraments, the saints and their images, and complicated services…”
L. Tolstoy

from: http://eng.islam.ru/newmuslims/tolstoy/

[_Prawda_]

Lev tolstoy wasnt he a jew?
or his family was jews converted to orthodox?

lev very known jewish name and the tolstoys are jewish familys...quite common...just listen to the name...

The great Russian novelist, Leo Nikolaivitch Tolstoy, best known for his classic War and Peace, wrote this in 1908 about the Jewish people:

"The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illuminated with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their beliefs and their religions. The Jew is the emblem of eternity. He, who neither slaughter nor torture of thousands of years could destroy, he who neither fire, nor sword, nor Inquisition was able to wipe off the face of the earth. He, who was the first to produce the Oracles of God. He, who has been for so long the Guardian of Prophecy and has transmitted it to the rest of the world. Such a nation cannot be destroyed. The Jew is as everlasting as Eternity itself."

[uzbek]

Originally posted by Tugay-bey

I really doubt,that any ak-kulak ever could really accept Islam.They tend to take on one or the other fanatical sect(like the Askers).The REAL understanding of the Holy Quaran somehow escapes them.
Anyway,wich part of Uzbekstan are you from?I have my Army buddy,still living in Fergana.In 1992 I've visited him there.Best two month of my life,I can remember! I've also spent some time in Samarkand.Beutifull citi(I mean,the old parts,not the "modern" Soviet),ain't it?
Khose gheldin,Uzbek!(sorry,dude,my Turc is VERY rusty,I can bearly understand it,let along speack)

well good ,those cities that you have visited are very ancient cities, and draws mentality and political wievs of Tamerlan era because at tumurids period they were ruconstructed again . These cities are like big museums. During russian ivasion of central asia many buildibgs were destroyed by heavy artelery later at comunist period many historic elements of those cities were carried to russsian Ermitaj.
Tugay bey you yourself,where are you from?what is your nationality and language?

btw...
i also can not speak turkish fluently.