The Second International Conference
³The World of Islam: History, Society, Culture²
October, 2010, Moscow

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
Peoples¹ Friendship University of Russia and the Mardjani Foundation for
Research and Cultural Programs are organizing the Second International
Conference ³The World of Islam: History, Society, Culture².

The conference is planned to be held in October, 2010, exact dates will be
confirmed later. The First Conference of these series held in Moscow by the
Mardjani Foundation in co-operation with the Russian State University for
the Humanities in December 2007, brought together over 100 scholars from
leading Russian and foreign academic center and universities.
The First Conference was billed as a general discussion on historical issues
and contemporary social, political and cultural development of Islam and
Muslim world from a wide interdisciplinary perspective, methodological and
organizational issues of Islamic studies as a complex of disciplines
studying Islam in globalizing world. It was Initially decided to extend the
discipline range of the Conference through involvement in its work lots of
specialists in different branches of Islamic studies: historians,
ethnologists, linguists, philologists, philosophers, political scientists,
social anthropologists and other specialists in related fields who are
interested in this agenda.
The main objectives of the Second Conference are the elaboration of
scientific and cultural dialogue among the researchers of related sciences
of Oriental and Islamic studies, the communication between Russian and
foreign researchers, the search of open area for discussion of fundamental
research problems, opinion exchanges and, as a result, to establish a
professional communication network between islamicists from Russia and
abroad.
The immediate objective of the Third Conference is to discuss the following
issues:
·      Source study, historiography, intellectual and political history of
Islamic world
·      Islam and linguistic and philological problems of Muslim countries
(The Middle East and Eurasian Turkic philology)
·      The Heritage of classical Islamic thought (fiqh, kalam, falsafa,
tasawwuf)
·      Islam in Russia and in the former USSR countries
·      Problems of the modern Islamic world
·      Islam and the Muslims in contemporary western societies
·      Islam in the Art and the Art of Islam
·      Muslim societies from an anthropological perspective
·      Recent ideological trends in Islam
The suggestions for any other discussions corresponding to the subject of
the Conference are eagerly expected.
The working languages are Russian, English and Arabic.
Applications¹deadlines:
The organizing committee of the Conference would be glad to consider any
panel proposals wich will be received before February, 1, 2010. The
information to be submitted alongside with the proposal (500 words maximum),
includes the panel convenor¹s full name, title, institutional affiliation,
full mail and e-mail addresses, as well names, institutional affiliations,
and e-mail addresses of not less than two other possible participants of the
panel. The proposals about the participants of the sections are mostly
welcome.
The organizing committee will have announced the results of section
applications¹ consideration by March, 1, 2010.
The notice for presentation applications will be published in March, 2009.
Paper proposals should be sent before June, 15, 2010 not to the Oranizing
Committee, but directly to the panel convenors who are to inform
participants whether they are accepted by July 1, 2010. This application
consists of an abstract (up to 300 words in one of the working languages),
name(s) of a presenter, academic degree and institutional affiliation,
e-mail and postal address. The authors whose proposals will be accepted
should submit the full papers to panel moderator by August,15, 2010. By the
time the Conference starts these texts will have been released in the
Internet and printed as a volume.
Please, send the materials to: conference@mardjani.ru
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There are several proposals for sections and round tables topics by now:
Islam in the Russian Empire: documents and institutions (moderators: Prof.
Dmitri Yu. Arapov, Moscow Lomonosov University, and Dr. Vladimir O.
Bobrovnikov, Institute of Oriental Studies and Mardjani Foundation, Russia)
Mysticism in the  Muslim World: theory and practice (moderator: Dr. Pavel V.
Basharin, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow and Mardjani
Foundation)
Islamic economics in the modern world (moderator: Dr. Renat I. Bekkin,
Mardjani Foundation and MGIMO-University of International Relations, Russia)
Transformational processes in Muslim communities: social, political and
sociocultural aspects (moderator: Galina A. Khizrieva, Institute of Cultural
Studies, Russia)