Roman Anatoljewitsch Silantjew

Roman Anatoljewitsch Silantjew ( Russian Роман Анатольевич Силантьев ; scientific transliteration Roman Anatol'evič Silant'ev ; born September 15, 1977 in Moscow ) is a Russian religious scholar , sociologist , religious historian and Islamic scholar . He is a board member of the World Council of the Russian People and a lecturer at Moscow State Linguistic University . His numerous publications have sparked both praise and criticism in government, academic, and religious circles.

biography

In 1999, Silantiev graduated from the Faculty of Geography at Moscow University with a degree in economic and social geography . From 2001 to 2005 he was Executive Secretary of the Interreligious Council of Russia . In June 2003 he submitted a dissertation for the candidate degree in history on ethno-social, political and religious aspects of the division within the Islamic community at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the guidance of Pawel Putschkow (1930-2008) Russia a.

In April 2010 he became the founder and director of the Center for Religious Geography within the framework of the Synodal Department for Church and Society of the Orthodox Church, founded in 2009 .

In June 2014, he submitted his dissertation to the Moscow State Linguistic University for a doctorate in history, which contains a comparative historical analysis of the development of the external relations of the Islamic clergy in Russia from the end of the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century.

He has published over 100 publications to date and is a contributor to the Great Russian Encyclopedia and the Orthodox Encyclopedia , among others .

reception

Silantiev's book The Latest History of the Islamic Community in Russia was published in 2005 and led to stormy debates among scholars and representatives of the Orthodox , Jewish and Islamic clergy, whereupon Silantiev had to vacate his post at the Russian Interreligious Council. The Russian muftirate accused Silantiev of twisting facts in his book. In 2006, the sociologist and historian Nikolaj Mitrochin described the book as "offensive to the majority of Muslim leaders" in the journal Неприкосновенный запас ("Iron Ration").

The Arabist and Islamic scholar Jefim Reswan , deputy director of the Kunstkammer in Saint Petersburg , described Silantjev's encyclopedia Islam w sovremennoj Rossii (“Islam in contemporary Russia”) as “the first work in recent Russian history that conveys an overall objective picture of the complex and ambiguous processes that have taken place in the country's Muslim society over the past 15 years. "

Awards

For his contributions to the encyclopedia “Peoples and Religions of the World” he was nominated for the State Prize of the Russian Federation .

In June 2012, Silantjew was honored together with Sergej Tschekmajew (* 1973), a writer of fantastic literature , for the restart of the fantastic collections "Anti-Terror 2020" and "Relentless Tolerance".

Positions

In connection with the attacks in Volgograd in 2013 , he spoke out in favor of a "total war against Wahhabism " and at the same time referred to Talgat Tajuddin , the chairman of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims in Russia , as an "old and loyal friend of the Russian people and Orthodox Christians" .

Publications (selection)

• Novejschaja istorija islamskowo soobschtschestva Rossii (“Recent History of the Islamic Community of Russia”) Ichtios, Moscow, 2005. 632 pp. ISBN 5-8402-0104-9 .
• Novejschaja istorija islama w Rossii (“Recent History of Islam in Russia”) online edition Algoritm, Moscow, 2007. 576 pp. ISBN 978-5-9265-0322-4 .
• Islam w sovremennoj Rossii, enziklopedija ("Islam in Contemporary Russia, Encyclopedia") Algoritm, Moscow, 2008.
• Interactive map of all religious communities in Russia online edition, in Russian

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography (Russian)
2. ↑ Official website of the Moscow Patriarchate (Russian)
3. ↑ Orthodox statement on Silantiev's book ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2007 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. (English) 
4. ↑ Interreligious Council of Russia regrets the publication of Silantiev's book on Islam
5. ↑ Author of Islam-Buch released as Executive Secretary of the Interreligious Council
6. ↑ Anatoly Artemov: 'Dead heat'
7. ↑ Statement of the Russian Muftirate (Russian)
8. ↑ “Circus after the Crisis”, Issue No. 6 (50), 2006 ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian) 
9. ↑ Interfax, May 26, 2008 (Russian)
10. ↑ Interfax, January 30, 2012 (Russian)
11. ↑ Pravoslavie.ru, December 30, 2013 (English)