Affiliation
Kazan Federal University
Biography
Rezeda Safiullina-Ibragmova focuses her research interests on Tatar intellectual culture, through the study of Arabic literature in Tatar cultural environment, the Tatar Muslim press, the history of Sufism in the Volga-Urals, the history and current situation of Tatar Muslim religious education, the psychological problems in the Muslim community of Russia.
She received her PhD in 2001 from the Kazan State University in two fields: Literature of the Russian Federation (Tatar literature) and International Literature (Arabic Literature). In 2003, based on her dissertation she published the monograph Arabic Books in the Spiritual Culture of the Tatar People. She later became the Head of the Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture at the Bolghar Islamic Academy and the Head of the Department of Islamic Theology at the Russian Islamic University and an Associate Professor at the Kazan Federal University. The author and presenter of original TV programmes, she created and realised several collaborative projects, such as an International Turkic-Tatar Festival of Children’s Creativity, a School of the Muslim Leader (Mahalla), and the Illahi Mon Festival of Tatar Spiritual Heritage and Oral Folk Art. She is currently an independent researcher, the Director of the Public Organisation ‘Gulzada Creative Studio’, as well as a practical psychologist and Jungian analyst, and a religious scholar, the author of nine monographs and textbooks, and of more than a hundredth of scholarly publications.
Publications related to the project’s theme:
Safiullina-Ibragimova, R. R., ‘In search of a Master: Modern Transformations of Sufism (the Experience of Tatarstan)’, in S. Abashin, ed., Sufism after the USSR, Moscow: Marjani Foundation, 2022
Safiullina-Al Ansi, R. R., ‘Theological Issues on the Pages of the Tatar Press of the Early Twentieth Century’, Revista entre linguas, 6 (2020): 167–173
https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/entrelinguas/article/view/16343
Safiullina, R., ‘The Revival of Sufism in Tatarstan: a Tradition, an Export or an Expansion?’, in R. Bekkin, ed., The Concept of ‘Traditional Islam’ in Modern Islamic Discourse in Russia, Sarajevo: Centre for Advanced Studies, 2020: 159–202
Safiullina, R. R., A History of Tatar-Language Muslim Journalism: A Study Guide, Kazan: Kazan University Press, 2019 (in Russian)
