马克思主义宗教观的真理性历久弥新——重温恩格斯关于阿拉伯—伊斯兰文化的论述

On the Timeless Truth of Unfading Marxist Religious View——Revisiting Engels’Exposition on Arab-Islamic Culture

恩格斯不仅与马克思一道树立了马克思主义宗教观,以辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义科学地揭示了宗教的本质,而且亲身示范了如何用马克思主义的宗教观对阿拉伯—伊斯兰文化进行富有成果的研究。恩格斯始终站在时代学术的前沿,努力吸收时代精神的精华,不仅区分了伊斯兰之前蒙昧时期阿拉伯宗教文化存在着的从自然崇拜向偶像崇拜发展的两个阶段,发现了其后出现的一种向着一神教过渡的趋势,而且阐释了这种过渡和伊斯兰文化的诞生是经济基础变化和社会历史转折的产物,尤其是揭示了伊斯兰文化的新旧更替是一种吐故纳新式的“复古和返璞”①的实质。恩格斯关于阿拉伯—伊斯兰宗教文化的独到的科学见解,在他诞辰200周年之际仍然闪烁着真理的光芒,鼓舞和鞭策我们以马克思主义宗教观和习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指导,为更好地服务于“一带一路”倡议和“人类命运共同体”的理论研究而不懈努力。

Engels,the great mentor,not only set up the Marxist religious view together with the great mentor Marx,scientifically revealing the essence of religion with dialectical materialism and historical materialism,but also demonstrated by himself how to carry out fruitful research on Arab-Islamic culture with the Marxist religious view.Engels did his best to absorb the essence of the spirit of the times and always stand at the academic forefront of his time,not only distinguished the two stages of the transition of Arab religious culture from natural worship to idolatry in the period of pre-Islamic obscurantism,but also explained that this transition and the birth of Islamic culture are the product of economic infrastructure change and socio-historical turn,especially revealed that the essence of the new take-over of Islamic culture is“retro and return to the original”.Engels own scientific discourse on Arab-Islamic religious culture still flashes the light of truth on the 200th anniversary of his birth,encouraging and urging us to take Marxist religious view and Xi Jinping s new age socialist religious theory with Chinese characteristics as the guide,to better serve the“Belt and Road Initiative”and“Human Destiny Community”with our theoretical research and unremitting struggle.