The cycle of online lectures \u201cHajj in Russian context: muslim pilgrimage in the past and nowadays\u201d was held with the assistance of Ibn Sina Foundation. Five lectures were delivered by leading Russian specialists and a lecturer from Iran:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA Soviet hajj to the Third World since the Era of Cold War: freedom of belief exposed or\/and personal piety (V.O. Bobrovnikov, a candidate of historical sciences, a leading research scholar, the Head of the Center of Central Asia, Caucasus and Ural-Volga Region Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences);<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHajj as a spiritual path of muslims: the history, rites and traditions\u201d (I.K. Davletshin, a theologist, a researcher of Islam, the Head of the Department of Education and Science of the Muslim Spiritual Administration of the Russian Federation, an editor at \u201cMedina\u201d Publishing House);<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRussian muslims\u2019 hajj in a historical retrospective: Imperial and Early Soviet practices (XXVII \u2013 the first third of the XX century)\u201d (Yu.N. Guseva, a professor of the Moscow City Pedagogical University); <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA virtual hajj: a sacred journey into the digital era\u201d (Z.R. Habibullina, a candidate of historical sciences, a senior research scholar of the Department of Religion Study of R.G. Kuzeev Institute of Ethnological Studies).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEvidences of hajj in manuscripts\u201d (Ahmed Hameyar).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Different aspects of Muslim pilgrimage were covered in the lectures: the history, practices, hajj at the digital era, manuscripts on hajj, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n