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Youth International School For Islamic Studies will be traditionally held this year as well, though this time in Kyiv (due to Russian occupation of Crimea). Current topic is “Qur’an and Qur’anistics”, where the phenomenon of the Holy Book, its explanations, comments, interpretations to various languages of the world are to be discussed along with Qur’anic studies and related theological researches. Besides attending lectures, making reports and participating in discussions, young Islamic researchers will also meet some representatives of Islamic Religious and Social Organisations and take part in Islamic-related intellectual games and excursions.

The School will be held on August 4-8 at the building of Kyiv Islamic cultural Centre (25a Dehtyarivsk’ka Str.)

For participation you need to e-mail your thesis and a freeform application to ukrcid@gmail.com by July 20 (indicating the title of your report, author’s full name, science degree or rank, title of University, Organisation or Institute, position, and some contact information, i.e. address, cell, business phone number, e-mail, topic of the report — if the participant is willing to publish their report). Please indicate “School of Islamic Studies” as the title of your e-mail. For further information please dial: +38-044-490-99-96 (, Monday — Friday, 12 AM - 7 PM, Mr. Oleh Guzik).

As the seats are limited, the facilitators reserve the right of hold a competitive selection of people willing to participate in the School of Islamic Studies. A digest of the participants’ reports “Al-Qalam #3” will be published after the School is over.

Typescript requirements are standard: the thesis must contain  author’s (authors’) full name (names) and a title written either in Ukrainian or in the language used in it.. Text size is limited to 20,000 characters (including author’s data, title and list of references), font Times New Roman, size 14, spacing 1.5. The list of references is indicated at the end of thesis in rank order (square brackets) with indicating the page after a comma (i.e. [4, p.5]) in the language of manuscript.

Youth International School For Islamic Studies is meant to strengthen the native Islamic Studies and help the young researchers gain a deep systemic knowledge of Islam and Islamic Studies, Islamic Theology and Philosophy, along with current state of Islamic religion both in Ukraine and worldwide.