Russia and the Islamic World, 2010

Foreign participants:

Ambassadors and members of the Embassies of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Thailand, Turkey

Islamic Republic of Iran - delegation members:

Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri
General Secretary
Worldwide Assembly for Improved Relations Among Islamic Mazhabs (Delegation Leader).

Ayatollah Hadavi Tehrani
Director
Center for the Propagation of Wisdom.

Mehdi Sanai, Dr.
Parliamentarian, IRI.

Ahmad Reza Dastgaib, Dr.
Parliamentarian, IRI.

Mohammed Hassan Tabaraiyan
Deputy General
Secretary for International Relations of the Worldwide Assembly for Improved Relations Among Islamic Mazhabs.

Javad Ismail
Counselor to the General Secretary for the Worldwide Assembly for Improved Relations Among Islamic Mazhabs.

Hosein Yari
Director
Cabinet of the General Secretary for the Worldwide Assembly for Improved Relations Among Islamic Mazhabs.

Mehdi Mostafavi, Dr.
Director
Organization of Culture and Islamic Relations.

Mehdi Imanipur
Deputy Director
Organization of Culture and Islamic Relations

M. Shamsher Ali
President
Bangladesh Academy of Sciences,
Vice-Chancellor, Southeast University, Dhakka. Prof., Dr.
Bangladesh

Taysir R.H. Bayyoud Altamimi
Supreme Judge - Palestinian National Authority
Palestine

Hamed (Sh.R) H. Altamimi
Interreligious Dialogue Department Director – Palestinian National Authority
Palestine

Salih bin Hussein el-Ayad
Secretary General of the Higher Islamic Council,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Padma Lochan Dash   
Professor of Eurasian Studies, University of Mumbai,
India

Yasemin Elibol
Expert on Legislation
Foreign Relations Department
Turkish Parliament
Turkey

Halit Eren
Director-general IRCICA. Dr.   

Abdul Halim Fadlallah
Director
Center for Documentation and Research, Dr.
Lebanon

Yousef Al Hassan
General Director of the Diplomatic
Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the UAE
UAE, Abu Dhabi

Muhiddin Kabiri
Member of the Parliament
Tajikistan

Wassim Kalaajieh
Coordinator of Lebanese Al Wasatiya Forum, Dr.
Lebanon

Mahmud Keftaro
President of the Association by the name of Sheikh Ahmad Amin Keftaro, Dr.
Syria

Gilles Kepel
Professeur de l'Institut d'Etudes Politique de Paris - Science Po, Directeur de la Chaire
Moyen-Orient Mediterranne - Professor, Director of the Chair of the Middle East & Mediterranean Studies in the Institute of the Political Sudies in Paris - Science-Po
France

Faisal A. Al-Muaammar
Secretary General
King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue
Saudi Arabia

Syafiq Mughni
Professor of Islamic Civilization Islamic University Sunan Ampel Surabaya

Tariq Ramadan
Professor, Tariq Ramadan's European Office
France

Habib bin Muhammad Al-Riami
Director General
The Sultan Qaboos Center for Islamic Culture
Oman

Maria Sultan
Director General
South Asian Strategic Stability Institute
Islamabad, Pakistan

Mustapha Tlili
Founder and Director of the Center for Dialogues Islamic World-U.S.-The West, N.Y. University
USA

Yaşar Yakış
Chairman
EU Committee in the Turkish Parliament,
former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Turkey


Participants from the Russian Federation:

(by russian alphabetic order)

Abdullaev, Ahmad
(Ahmad-Hajji)
Mufti of Dagestan, chairman of the Spiritual Board of Dagestan Muslims

Aliyev, Mukhu
Ex-president of the republic of Dagestan

Alikberov, Alikber
Ph.D. in History, Head of the Center for Comparative Study of Caucasus, Central Asia and Ural-Volga region  at the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS

Alimov, Marat
Deputy Chairman of the Muslim Religious Board of the European Part of Russia (DUMER) in the Southern federal district

Alpatov, Vladimir
Corresponding Member of RAS, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS

Alyautdinov, Ildar-Hazrat
Chief Imam-Khatib of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque

Asadullin, Farid
Sheikh, head of Department for Science and Coordination with the Russian State Services at Moscow muftiat, Chairman of Information and Analytical Centre of muftis of Russia

Aslahanov, Aslanbek
Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; member of the Council of the Federation Commission for Interaction with the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation; member of the Council of the Federation Committee for Foreign Affairs

Akhmetshin, Ravil Kalimullovich
Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation

Baklanov, Andrei
Head of the International Affairs Department of the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly

Belokrenitsky, Vyacheslav
Professor, Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS

Berel Lazar
(Lazar Pinhos Berel)
Chief Rabbi of Russia

Bondarenko, Dmitri
Executive Director  the Foundation for support of Islamic science, culture and education

Vershinin, Sergei
Director of the Department of the Middle East
and North Africa of the MFA of the RF

Gainutdin, Ravil-Hazrat
The chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of European Russia (SDMER), sheikh

Grishin Alexey A.
Chief Adviser of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation

Gumerov, Salavat Bulatovich
Plenipotentiary Representative of the Republic of Bashkortostan in the RF

Daurov, Ramazan
Deputy director of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies

Dzasokhov, Alexander
Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on the Arts, Member of the Federation Council Committee for the Commonwealth of Independent States

Evkurov, Yunus-Bek B.
President,
Republic of Ingushetia, RF

Zatullin, Konstantin
Director of the Institute of CIS

Zvyagelskaya, Irina
Professor, Doctor of History, Senior Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS

Ibrahim, Tawfik Kamel
Professor of the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS,
Chairman of the Russian Society of Islamic Studies

Idrisov, Umar-Hazat
Chairman of the Council of Elders of the Spiritual Direction of Muslims in the region of Nizhny Novgorod

Isaev, Vladimir
Doctor of Economic Sciences, senior researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS

Iskhaqov, Gusman-Hazrat
The Mufti of Tatarstan

Zamir, Kabulov
MFA, Director of the Second Asian Department (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka)

Kadyrov, Ramzan
President of the Chechen Republic

Kokoshin, Andrey
State Duma deputy, the Dean of the faculty of  world politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Kosach, Gregory
Professor of Russian State Humanitarian University, Faculty of History, Political Science and Law

Kotenkov, Alexander
Authorized representative of the President to the Federation Council of Federal Assembly of Russia

Kulikov, Vladimir
The Executive Secretary of the "Dialogue of Civilizations"

Kamilev, Said
Director of the Institute of Islamic civilization

Margelov, Mikhail
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of Russia

Meyer, Mikhail
Rector of the Institute of Asian and African Studies of MSU

Mirzaev, Sultan
Mufti of Chechnya

Mikhailov, Yuri
Chief editor at "Ladomir"

Muzykantskiy, Alexander
President of the Foundation for Russian Public Policy Center

Murtazin, Marat 
Rector of the Moscow Islamic University, PhD in history

Mukhametshin, Rafik
Rector of the Russian Islamic University

Mukhatdinov, Damir
Rector of the Islamic Institute in Nizhny Novgorod

Naumkin, Vitaly
Prof., Doctor of History, Director of  the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS

Nikonov, Vyacheslav
President of the Foundation "Politics"
Executive Director of the Foundation Board "Russian world"; member of the Public Chamber of Russia

Odaev, Hamzat
Director of the Department for Relations with Religious and social organizations of the Presidential Administration and Government of the Chechen Republic

Pashkov, Vladimir
Deputy Head of the international project "Phoenician Expedition”

Peshkov, Maxim
MFA, Director of the Third Department of the CIS countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), a member of the Board

Polyeva, Johan
Assistant to the President of Russia, presidential representative for humanitarian cooperation with the CIS

Popenkov, Oleg
President of the Interregional Fund "Public Meed" for the Patronship Development and Support of the Orthodox Projects

Popov, Veniamin
Ambassador-at-large of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Head of the Center for Partnership of Civilizations at Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the MFA of Russia

Primakov, Yevgeny
President of the Chamber of Commerce of Russia, academician, member of Presidium of RAS

Prozorov, Stanislav
Deputy Director for Science of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (St. Petersburg)

Ryabykh, Philip, Father Superior
Vice-Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Patriarchate

Ryakhovsky, Sergey
The head of the Protestant community in Russia

Sadriev, Arslan
Head of the Department of the Interior of the Muslim Union of Russia

Saltanov, Alexander
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Special Representative of the President of Russia on the Middle East

Smirnov, Andrey
Deputy Director of the Institute of Philosophy of RAS, Corresponding Member of RAS, Head of the  sector of philosophy of the Islamic world

Surkov, Vladislav
First Deputy Head of Presidential Administration

Syukiyainen, Leonid
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor of Theory and Comparative Law of the State University- Higher School of Economics

Tajuddin, Muhammad
Representative of the Central Spiritual Board of Muslims (Russia)

Umakhanov, Ilyas
First Deputy Chairman of the Committee of the Federal Council on International Affairs

Filonik, Alexander
Ph.D. in History, Head of the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, RAS

Khabutdinov, Aydar
Professor of the Kazan branch of Russian Academy of Justice

Khamkhoev, Isa
Mufti of Ingushetia, head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Republic of Ingushetia

Khakimov, Bakhtiyer
MFA, Director of the Department of Asian and Pacific cooperation

Khamchiev, Belan
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Public Associations and Religious Organizations

Chaplin, Vsevolod
Orthodox Church,
Archpriest, Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church and Public Relations

Shaymiev, Mintimer
Ex-President of the Republic of Tatarstan, State Councilor of the Republic of Tatarstan, Trustee of the support of Islamic culture, science and education

Scherchenkov, Vladimir
Center for International Private Enterprise, the chief advisor

Shuvalov, Konstantin
Ambassador at Large of the  MFA of Russia

Emanuilov, Rahamim
President of Civilizations Interaction Foundation


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Information Note

Organizing Committee contact details:

e-mail: e-mail скрыт
Fax +7 (495) 623-1909
(Please indicate subject of the fax as “Conference on Russia and the Islamic World.”)

Contact persons are
Valery Shageyev, cell: +7 (919) 410-0564
Lana Ravandi-Fadai, cell: +7 (926) 149-8314
Aziz Niyazi, cell: +7 (985) 110-3684