Rais Rawkatowitsch Suleimanow

Rais Suleimanov

Rais Rawkatowitsch Suleimanow ( Russian Раис Равкатович Сулейманов ;. Scientific transliteration Rais Ravkatovič Sulejmanov ; born 25. June 1984 , Kazan , USSR ) is a Russian religious scholars and Islamic scholar , who as an expert on Islamic radicalism and Tatars applies.

Life

Suleymanov graduated from Kazan University , where he studied history.

He conducts research on ethnic and religious conflicts in the Volga region . He is the author of publications on radical Islamic movements in Russia, especially in the Volga Federal District . He was the head of the Volga Center for Regional and Ethnic-Religious Studies of the Russian Institute for Strategic Research (Российский институт стратегических исследований) and now works as an expert at the Institute for National Strategy (инасетьр Инаитер)

Rais Suleimanow worked closely with the Muslim community leader and scholar, Imam Valiulla Jakupow , the deputy of the then Grand Mufti of Tatarstan , Ildus Faisow. After he was murdered in front of his house in Kazan in 2012 , he has since worked to preserve and develop its scientific and theological heritage.

Suleimanov has been criticized for producing predictions specifically designed to shock the public. After Suleimanov publicly asserted that radical Islam was being promoted in the Federation Republic of Tatarstan and that this was backed by the leadership of the republic, he was officially warned of extremist activities by the office of the Prosecutor General of the Republic, Kafil Amirov. As a result, Amirov was forced to resign in 2013 at the instigation of the Russian central government. Suleimanov, who in 2014 accused the West of trying to destabilize Tatarstan with the help of Islamic extremists, later revealed his close ties to the Russian secret service apparatus.

See also

• Spiritual Administration of the Muslims of the Republic of Tatarstan (Muftiate of Kazan)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ cf. business-gazeta.ru: "Нам нужны люди, не работавшие по западным грантам" (accessed on November 28, 2016)
2. ↑ regnum.ru: Раис Сулейманов: "Пока звучат мантры о фальшивом благополучии, инвестиций в Татарстан нетрын" - accessed on November 28, 2016
3. ↑ kazan.aif.ru: Раис Сулейманов. Год без богослова Валиуллы Якупова (1963–2012) - Retrieved November 28, 2016
4. ↑ business-gazeta.ru: Who is Mr Раис Сулейманов? (Александр Шагулин, Ильдар Нигматуллин, Ринат Билалов / Alexander Schagulin, Ildar Nigmatullin, Rinat Bilalow), 07/09/2013 - accessed November 16, 2016
5. ↑ eng.tatar-inform.ru: Ethnic and religious researcher Rais Suleimanov disagrees with prosecutors's warning ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ jamestown.org: Rebel Tatar Prosecutor Banished by Moscow; Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 10 Issue: 175 (Valery Dzutsev)
7. ↑ apn.ru: Прокуратура Татарстана и сепаратизм 1990-х годов (2013-09-26 Сергей Петров), APN
8. ↑ jamestown.org: Analyst from Tatarstan Asserts That the West Wants to Destabilize the Republic Using Islamists - Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 11 Issue: 192, October 29, 2014, Valery Dzutsev

literature

• Gordon M. Hahn: The Caucasus Emirate Mujahedin: Global Jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus . 2014 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
• American Foreign Policy Council : The World Almanac of Islamism: 2014 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)

Web links

• asianews.it: For Islamic scholar, Islamic headwear is not a Russian Muslim tradition
• riss.ru: R.Suleymanov: “Don't follow radicals!” Russian Institute for Strategic Studies