How Imams Are Trained in Kazakhstan: An Insider’s View

Considering that society lives in an era of global challenges, it is important to optimise the training of religious leaders in accordance with current requirements, says Ershat Ongar, Vice-Rector of the Nur-Mubarak University of Islamic Culture.


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25.12.24

Syria after Assad: Is There Cause for Concern in Central Asia?

Experts from Kazakhstan believe that the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria will not yet affect the Central Asian countries. They consider the ‘sleeper cells’ of destructive movements within the country to be far more dangerous.


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18.12.24

Why are new approaches to ensuring freedom of religion in Kazakhstan needed?

Approaches to the promotion of human rights in the field of freedom of religion in Kazakhstan by international legal institutions require in-depth study and a more flexible approach. Successfully building of a new format of dialogue is possible only if the existing realities are taken into account.


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Experts on Religion

Director of public union “Counter terrorism committee”

Gulnaz Isaeva

Expert-religious scholar, head of analyst department of the State Committee on Religious Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic

Zailabidin Azhimamatov

Head of the Department of Religious Studies and Humanities, Osh

Zakir Chotaev

Deputy Director of the State Commission for Religious Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic

Indira Aslanova

Expert on religious studies

Kadyr Malikov

Religion expert, public activist

Mahrambek Anvarzoda

Researcher at the Centre for Islamic Studies under the President of Tajikistan

Mirkhat Madiyarov

Head of public union “Counter terrorism committee”

Kurbanova Nazira

Kyrgyz State University after I. Arabaev, Institute of History, Social and Legal Education, Director

Negmatullo Mirsaidov

Journalist reporting on international developments, expert on political, economic and social issues

Rasim Chelidze

Theologian, Kazakhstan

Rustam Azizi

Deputy Director of the Center for Islamic Studies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan

Saidakhmat Kalamdarov

Independent Expert on Interfaith Conflict, Tajikistan

Emil Nasritdinov

Professor, Department of Anthropology, American University of Central Asia

Yulia Denisenko

Expert on countering extremism and terrorism, Kazakhstan

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