Ibn Sina Foundation participated in the II Scientific and Practical Conference “Islamic Studies Heritage of the Kazan Spiritual Academy”. The event was held on February 10 at the Kazan Orthodox Spiritual Seminary and was dedicated to commemoration of an outstanding Orientalist, a Professor of the Kazan Spiritual Academy Gordiy Semyonovich Sablukov (1803-1880).
The conference was opened with welcome speeches from the Consul General of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the representative of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and the organizers of the event. The Scientific Director of Ibn Sina Foundation Andrey Alexandrovich Lukashev passed greetings on behalf of the President of the Foundation Hamid Hadavimoghaddam.
Research scholars from the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and university teachers from the Department of Islamic Studies of the Kazan Spiritual Seminary (A.A. Lukashev, V.N. Rogatin, N.A. Erundov and others) presented their reports.
The Director of the International Institute for Islamic-Christian Dialogue Mohammad Sahaf Kashani, whose participation had been provided by the Foundation, presented collections of articles based on materials of the conference “Comparative Studies of Ethics in Islam and Christianity” organized with the assistance of the Kazan Orthodox Spiritual Seminary and Ibn Sina Foundation.
F.O. Nofal, who is a research scholar at the Department of the Islamic World Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, presented two of his latest works dedicated to religious dialogue. First, this is a fundamental apologetic treatise “Instructions for those confused about answers to Jews and Christians” by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (M.: Sadra, 2026). That work was published with the scientific preface, translation and commentaries by F.O. Nofal in cooperation of Ibn Sina Foundation with the Kazan Orthodox Spiritual Seminary. The second book is a critical text published with the original text of the Samaritan treatise “The Path of the Heart to Comprehending the Lord” by Ibrahim al-Qabasi from Damascus (M.: Sadra, 2026). Both works have contributed greatly into religious dialogue and the Islamic studies development.
