The Bulgarian Islamic Academy with the support of the leadership of the Tatarstan Republic together with Kazan Federal University and with the assistance of the Ministry Science and Higher Education of the Russia Federation, the Central Spiritual Board of Muslims of Russia, the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Russian Federation and the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Tatarstan Republic hold the I International Forum “Theological Heritage of Muslims of Russia”.
The Forum will take place within the implementation of the Action Plan to ensure the training of specialists with profound knowledge of Islamic History and Culture in 2017-2020, which was approved by the administrative directive of the Russian Federation government on November 18, 2016. № 2452-p.
The objects of the Forum are: the consolidation of efforts of scientists and experts, public and religious figures in discussing and solving current issues of preserving, studying and developing traditional spiritual Islamic values of the Muslim peoples of Russia, issues of developing domestic Islamic theology and Islamic education, of reinforcing cultural civilizational and inter-religious dialogue in the context of modern Russia and globalization in the world.
The following issues are planning to be discussed at the Forum:
-research methodology and information exchange between Russian and foreign scientists in the area of Higher Islamic education development;
-traditional vector and innovative approaches in the development of Islamic theological idea in the world and Russian Muslim community;
-intellectual tradition of the Russian Islam in the context of all-Muslim idea: methodological foundations of the modern comparative research within modern challenges and tendencies;
-discovery, accumulation, storage and description of the written legacy samples of the Muslim peoples of Russia as an actual direction of humanitarian science;
-implementation of the Sharia law in modern conditions;
-national civilian and confessional identity of the Muslim youth in Russia and abroad: basic principles and development environment.
The following scientific events are planning to be held within the Forum:
1. October 13-15, 2019 – the International research-to-practice conference “III International Bulgarian readings “TRADITIONS AND INNOVATION OF THEOLOGICAL HERITAGE”.
2. October 15-17, 2019 – the Inter-regional research-to-practice conference “III Readings in the name of Sh. Marjani “QUEST FOR THEOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS IN THE EPOCH OF GLOBALIZATION”.
3. October 15-17, 2019 – the All-Russian research-to-practice conference “ISLAM AND SOCIETY: REGIONAL ASPECT”.
4. October 17-19, 2019 – Students’ International research-to-practice conference “FORMING OF THE MUSLIM YOUTH CIVIC POSITION IN RUSSIA AND ABROAD”.
“Academic competition in the Arabic and Russian languages” is in the framework of the conference.
It is planned to arrange plenary and panel sessions of the conferences within the Forum programme. Besides, the programme of the Forum will include discussions of a wide range of current issues in the main areas of scientific conferences in the form of public lectures and seminars at the presentation and discussion platforms of the Academy.
Forum business languages: Russian, Tatar, Arabic, English.
Conditions of participation
Islamic scholars, theologists, religious scholars, historians, representatives of scientific and educational organizations, students, religious and public figures are invited to take part in the work of the Forum.
Participation can be in any of the following formats:
• in person: oral or poster presentation, participation in discussions;
• virtually: publication of a scientific article.
The participants will be provided with synchronous interpretation into the Forum business languages as well as with all the required technical devices.
Participation in the scientific events of the Forum is free of charge. All expanses for travel, accommodation and meal of the participants, whose applications are approved by the Organizing Committee, will be covered by the organizers.
Forum Cultural Programme
Participants and guests of the event will be able to get acquainted with the activities of the Bulgarian Islamic Academy and visit the Bulgarian Historical and Architectural Reserve-Museum, which is the most northern monument of medieval Muslim architecture in the world. It is a unique example of Bolgar-Tatar architecture of the middle of the XIII-XIV centuries.
Requirements for applicants registration and paper submission
The Forum participant needs to provide the documents listed below within the established time limits:
-an application indicating the scientific event, surname, name and patronymic, place of work, occupation, academic degree and/or academic rank (if any), email address, phone number (the form attached);
-the text of the paper up to 0,25 printed pages (10 000 characters). The text should be in Microsoft Word (2003-2016), font size – 14, Times New Roman headset, single spacing, format – doc., docx., rtf. Fields – everywhere 2.5 cm. Alignment – in width. Headings should be in bold, in capital letters and centered. A participant’s name should be indicated in italics in the upper right corner. All footnotes are paginated, the numbering of links is end-to-end. The text of the article should be structured into sections. Annotations are to be in the English and Russian languages (volume 100-150 words) with the indication of the key words (5-7 words). They should be carefully verified. The structure of the manuscript full text devoted to the description of the results of original research should correspond to the generally accepted template and include the following sections: introduction (relevance), the purpose, materials and methods, results, conclusions, discussion. Each reference in the bibliography should be numbered and placed on a new line. References to the sources in the article are to be presented in square brackets in Arabic numerals. The format of the bibliography should comply with U.S. National Information Standards Organization NISO Z39.29-2005 [R2010]. This will allow articles to be further indexed in the international databases. When referring to journal articles (the most common source of information citation), you should do it in the following way: Author A.A., co-author B.B. The title of the article. The name of the magazine. Year; Volume (Number): pp. 56-66.
The conference materials will be published as independent collections of reports and articles, which will be available on the Forum website.
It is planned to place the collections on the article-by-article basis in the scientometrical database of the Russian Science Citation Index.
You are kindly asked to inform in advance if you need any technical equipment for your performance.
The Editorial Board of the Forum reserves the right not to accept materials for publication if they are not designed in accordance with the standard, or do not correspond to the stated topics, or if they have been previously published.
The Editorial Board does not correspond with the authors.
Important dates
The application deadline: September 14, 2019.
The paper submission deadline: October 1, 2019.
The deadline for informing participants about the registration of the application and the acceptance of the report –till October 1, 2019.
Preparation of the Forum programme – October 10, 2019.
Additional information on conditions of participation in the scientific events of the Forum and the requirements for the preparation of papers and abstracts will be indicated in the coming newsletters of the conferences, as well as on the Forum website at: forum.bolgar.academy.
Forum address
1, Kul Gali Street, Bolgar, the Republic of Tatarstan, the Russian Federation, 422840.
Forum coordinators
Rakhimov Suleyman Tuktarovich (Conference 1), +7(963) 120 8 021; Bulgar_reading@list.ru.
Khurmatullin Azat Kamilevich (Conference 2,3), +7(960) 035 0 395; mardjani-readings@yandex.ru.
Fathullin Ramis Albertovich (Conference 2,3), +7(904) 665 0 432; mardjani-readings@yandex.ru.
Khodjieva Gulnaz Galievna (Conference 4), +7(905) 311 2 649; galievna@mail.ru.
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The Organizing Committee reserves the right to select applications submitted.