Russian Muftirate

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Rawil Gainutdin, Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia

The Council of Muftis of Russia ( Russian Совет муфтиев России (СМР) / Soviet Muftijew Rossii (SMR); scientific transliteration Sovet muftiev Rossii ) is an Islamic umbrella organization founded in 1996 with headquarters in Moscow , in which numerous Muslim regional organizations of Russia are united . It is headed by Rawil Gainutdin , who is also the chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims in the Russian Federation . Vice-chairman is Nafigulla Chudchatowitsch Aschirow .

The SMR acts both as an organizing committee for Russia's Muslims and as a coordinator of various public activities to support Islam in the region. He sets up schools, builds meeting houses and provides literature. Among the educational institutions of the SMR that have achieved the greatest notoriety are two madrasas in the deep province, Yoldyz in Naberezhnye Chelny and Al-Furkan in Buguruslan . The SMR is also very active internationally and maintains relationships in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States , the Near and Middle East and North Africa.

The SMR was established in 1996 to unify the country's Muslim organizations. A few years later he was organizing international conferences, such as the international forum "The Future of Muslims in Russia in the New Millennium" in May 1999, in which the "Committee of Muslims of Asia in Kuwait" acted as a partner. In an official statement on March 20, 2003, the Mufti-Council expressed its support for "the balanced policy of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, " who called the US military action against Iraq a "major political mistake" and insisted that the US military action against Iraq was a "major political mistake" military activities should be stopped as early as possible.

The SMR also endeavors to promote Islamic banking . In March 2009 he organized an international conference on "Islamic Banking: Specifics and Perspectives". The conference should be "the beginning of constructive work in the field of the realization of Islamic banks and financial institutions on the territory of Russia" and "a forum for the development of cooperation with the financial institutions of Islamic countries".

In the communities affiliated to the SMR, extremist literature, weapons and explosives have already been seized and people arrested on suspicion of extremist and terrorist activities.

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  1. ↑ Silantjew: Soviet muftijew Rossii . 2015, p. 372.
  2. ↑ Silantjew: Soviet muftijew Rossii . 2015, pp. 432-438.
  3. ↑ Silantjew: Soviet muftijew Rossii . 2015, p. 62.
  4. ↑ Shireen Hunter et al. a .: Islam in Russia: The Politics of Identity and Security. Center for Strategic and International Studies, New York, 2004. p. 114.
  5. ↑ Silantjew: Soviet muftijew Rossii . 2015, pp. 556–558.
  6. ↑ Silantjew: Soviet muftijew Rossii . 2015, p. 620.

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