On 6 October 2016 the president of the Islamic Culture Research Foundation Hamid Hadavimogaddam had two meetings in Makhachkala: at the first meeting he spoke to the principal of the Dagestan State University Murtazali Rabadanov, and at the second one he spoke to the dean of the Faculty of Oriental Studies Arsen Magomedov and the dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Philosophy, the head of Subdepartment of Philosophy and Sociology, chief editor of the “Islamic studies” magazine Muhtar Yahyayev.

After the meeting an agreement on cooperation between the Fund and the Dagestan State University was signed. It implied cooperation in the area of intensification and systematization of exploration of Islamic cultural heritage and introduction of the latest scientific achievements in teaching.

Left photo (in the centre): Murtazali Rabadanov, Hamid Hadavimogaddam; Right photo: Hamid Hadavimogaddam (on the left), Murtazali Rabadanov (on the right)

On the photo: Nuri Mamed-zade (on the left), Hamid Hadavimogaddam and Arsen Magomedov (in the centre), Muhtar Yahyayev (on the right) 

Several dimensions of cooperation were elaborated as a part of the agreement, namely: participation in preparing and publishing the scientific-theoretical magazine “Islamic studies”, some works on Qur’anic studies and research works devoted to the history of Muslims of Dagestan and Russia.

It should be noted that the Islamic Culture Research Foundation and the Dagestan State University already worked together in 2011, when they published “The Catalogue of Arab manuscripts and early printed books: the collection of Diya’ad-din Yusuf-hajji al-Qurihi” by A.R. Shihsaidov with the support of the Institute of history, archaeology and ethnography of the Dagestan Scientific Centre under the Russian Academy of Sciences.

This agreement will break new ground for the developing cooperation between the Islamic Culture Research Foundation and the Dagestan State University.