title: Problematic issues of institutional development of islamicassociations in contemporary Ukraine
abstract: The article analyzes the revival of the Islamic religion which began in Ukraine in the 1990s. The
  authors point to the problematic issues of the institutional establishment of Islamic associations
  in contemporary Ukraine. In particular, four stages of development of Islam in independent
  Ukraine, which have their own institutional and ideological characteristics, are distinguished.
  Thus, the first stage was the creation of the first three spiritual administrations (the Spiritual
  Administrati