Delegates of the VIII Congress of Tatarstan's Religious Board of Muslims re-elected the republic's Mufti Kamil Samigullin for a new term. All participants of the congress, who have the right to vote, voted for him, the TASS correspondent reports.
"I ask those delegates who support Kamil Samigullin's candidacy to vote," said Jalil Fazlyev, chief qadi of the Republic of Tatarstan, opening the voting. The congress delegates voted for the current Mufti unanimously.
"Thank you very much, the work in this position is not easy. <...> God give you health and patience," he told the mufti after the election procedure.
At the 8th congress of the Religious Board of Muslims of Tatarstan, the Mufti gave a report on activities in the reporting period, which was also accepted by the congress participants.
Kamil Samigullin was born on March 22, 1985, in the village of Krasnogorskoye, Zvenigov district, Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He studied at North-Caucasus Islamic University, at a madrassa in Istanbul and at the Russian Islamic Institute.
He was imam in mosques in Nizhnevartovsk region, Tyumen oblast, and Kazan. He was first elected Mufti of Tatarstan on April 17, 2013. In 2017, at the VII Congress of the Religious Board of Muslims RT, he was re-elected to the position of Mufti of Tatarstan. He is fluent in Arabic and Turkish.
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