Russian Islamic University
university in Russia
The Russian Islamic University is Russia's first official Islamic university. It was founded in 1998 in Kazan, Tatarstan. The university consists of three departments (theology, Islamic science and Hafiz preparation) and four sub-departments (humanitarian, Islamic law, Islamic theology and philology). In 2008 the university had around 70 faculty and more than 400 students. The university changed its status to Islamic institute in 2009.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4398087. VIAF identifies the subject as 6200155832949133490009. The Library of Congress control number is nb2019010188. Authority coordinates are 55.765, 49.154. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998, 2008 and 2009.
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