Affiliation
CNRS–EHESS/CETOBAC, Paris
Biography
Ilshat Saetov, Ph.D. in Political Science, previously worked as a Research Fellow in the Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), as an Associate Professor in the Higher School of Economics and Kazan Federal University, and as head of department in the Russian State Library for Foreign Literature. His research focuses on the Muslim communities in Turkey, modernity and Islam, the Ottoman-Turkish press in modern Bulgaria, Tatar religious literature. He is co-editor of the book Political Transformation in the Muslim East: The Case of Turkey and Other Countries (Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies, 2018). In 2017–22, he edited Islamology, a journal for Studies of Islam and Muslim Societies. In 2023, he directed the documentary film Kazan Eraq (‘Kazan Is Far Away’) about the descendants of Muslim Tatar emigrants from the Russian to the Ottoman Empire.
Publications Related to the RedGold Programme:
Saetov I., Shlykov P., Koldunova E., Islamic Jamaats in the History, Politics and Social Dynamics of the Countries of the East, Moscow: IV RAN, 2021 (in Russian)
Saetov I., ‘Mehmet Zahid Kotku and Iskander Pasha Jamaat: Sufis between Islam, Politics and Holdings’, Minbar 12/4 (2019), pp. 906–23 (in Russian)
Saetov I., ‘Economics of Turkish Jamaats: Revanche of Neo-Sufi Communities at the Turn of the 21st Century’, State, Religion, Church in Russia and Abroad, 36/3 (2018), pp. 24–41 (in Russian)
Saetov, I., ‘Kurdish Jama’at Menzil and Turkish Nationalism: Paradoxes of Turkey’s Domestic Policy in the Field of Culture and Religion’, Islamology, 8/3 (2018), pp. 57–67 (in Russian)
Saetov I. ‘The Jamaatization of Tariqas in Republican Turkey: The Transformation of Muslim Communities as an Answer to the Challenges of Modernity’, in Sufism and the Muslim Spiritual Tradition, Saint Petersburg: Peterburgskoe Vostokovedenie, 2015, pp.240–57 (in Russian)
Saetov I. ‘The “Ismail Aga” Jamaat in the Public Life of Turkey: Religious, Political and Institutional Characteristics’, Islam in the Near and Middle East 8 (2014), pp. 178–84 (in Russian)
