Research projects

Research program of the Foundation includes commented translation of fundamental monuments of Islamic religious and political thought and historical sources and documents of the past and the present from Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Caucasian languages, study and publication of important archival data on the history of Muslim communities in Russia, the Former Soviet Union, Middle & Near East and Europe, investigation of cultural and social aspects of the Eurasian Muslim societies' history and providing further research contacts between scholars.

Research projects are undertaken by the Foundation research team in cooperation with visiting specialists from other academic institutions and research centers. Today research activities of the Foundation are represented in the  following projects: «Heritage of the Classical Islam», «Islam and Islamic culture in Russia and Eurasia», «Actual problems of the Modern Islamic World».

The Foundation also initiated the international conference on  Islamic studies «The World of Islam: history, society & culture» with a wide variety of topics. The first conference took place in the Russian State University for the Humanities in December, 2007. The further conference is scheduled in the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN) in October, 2010.