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Tahiiev, Akif, Dr.

Dr. Akif Tahiiev

Goethe Fellow

E-Mail: tahiiev@mmg.mpg.de

Research Interests
  • Shia Islam
  • Islamic Law
  • Islam in Europe
  • Comparative Law
  • Human Rights
  • Legal History
  • History of Religion
  • Minorities
Education
Jun. 2022
Postgraduate Diploma in Islamic Thought and Knowledge Integration, Institute of Knowledge Integration.
May 2022
PhD in Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Topic of PhD thesis: Islamic law: features of Shia doctrine. Prof. Dmytro Lukianov – scientific supervisor.
Mar. 2019
Master of Laws, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.
Jun. 2017
Bachelor of Laws, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.
Appointments

Jul. 2022 – Present

Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany.
Sep. 2022 – Present
Assistant of the Department of Private International Law and Comparative Law, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University. Duties: research activity; teaching the disciplines "Comparative law" and "Legal systems of modernity" to Ukrainian and foreign students of bachelor's and master's levels. At the moment, due to war teaching is carried out online.
Sep. 2019 – Sep. 2021
PhD Student: Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, The Department of Private International Law and Comparative Law. Duties: research activity; teaching the discipline "Legal systems of modernity" to foreign students of bachelor's levels.
Research Experience
Oct. 2022 – Present
Visiting scholar, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Jul.–Aug. 2022
Visiting Research Fellow, IWM (Institute for Human Sciences), Vienna, Austria.
Apr.–May 2022
Visiting Research Fellow, Department of East European History, University of Vienna, Austria.

Publications

Peer-reviewed scientific articles
Tahiiev, A., Ryzhkova, Yu. Особливості правової системи сучасного Сінгапуру (Features of the legal system of modern Singapore). Juridical scientific and electronic journal, 11, 2022.
Tahiiev, A., Ukolova V. & Ukolova, Ye. Формування та особливості правової системи Республіки Корея (Formation and features of the legal system of the Republic of Korea). Juridical scientific and electronic journal, 11, 2022.
Tahiiev, A., Lukianov, D. The Role of the Events of Fadak in the Formation of Differences between the Islamic Sunni and Shia laws. Islamic Inquiries, 1 (1), 2022. 61–74.
Tahiiev Akif. Minority within a minority: Shia community in Ukraine, International Journal of Islamic Thought, Vol. 19: (June), 2021. 14–20.
Lukianov D.V., Ponomarova H.P., & Tahiiev A.S. The Quran in Shia Jurisprudence. Journal of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, 27(4), 2020.29–42.
Tahiiev Akif. Sources of Shia Islamic Law (According to the Twelvers madhhab), Theory and Practice of Jurisprudence. 2020. Issue 2 (18).
Tahiiev Akif. Правова доктрина джерел ісламського права Імама Садика (Imam Sadiq’s legal doctrine of the sources of law), Recht der Osteuropäischer Staaten (ReOS), 2020(2): 62-66.
Tahiiev Akif. Some issues of Islamic banking, Scientific Bulletin of Public and Private Law 2017(1): 71-74.
Articles 'Impact of the events of Saqifa on the formation of differences between the Islamic Sunni and Shia law', 'Khums in Shia Jurisprudence', 'Prospects for higher Shia religious education  in post-Soviet countries', 'Shia women: on the way from mujtahid to marjaʿ', 'Shia Translations of the Qur’an into Russian', 'Dynamic Ijtihad' in process of publication.
Books

2023. Tahiiev, Akif. Islamic law: features of Shia doctrine (doctoral dissertation; unpublished, in process).
Tahiiev, Akif. Personal Status Law (Unpublished, in process).

Book chapters

Khabibullina Z., Muratova E. & others. Virtual Islam: Identity, Authorities and Religious Practices of Muslims in the Digital Age (Unpublished, in process). Chapter on Shia Islam and new media.
Lukianov, Shumilo & others. International Private Law (Unpublished, in process). Chapter on Islamic Family Law.

Refereed conference papers and other

14-15 October 2022. Tahiiev Akif. Shia Translations of the Qur’an into Russian. Workshop "Nation States and the Qur’an: Translators, Narratives and Debates in the Post-Soviet Space", organised by GloQur – The Global Qur’an. Freiburg, Germany.
14 October 2022. Tahiiev Akif. Представницькі органи кримських татар у період Євроінтеграції (Representative bodies of the Crimean Tatars in the period of European integration). International scientific and practical conference "European integration and cross-border cooperation". Lutsk, Ukraine.
6-7 August 2022. Workshop "Muslim Societies and Futures Studies", held by Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies. Istanbul, Turkey.
1-5 August 2022. Tahiiev Akif. Prospects for Shia religious education in post-Soviet countries. V Forum of scientists of CIS Countries. Istanbul, Turkey.
15 Feb 2022. Tahiiev Akif. Webinar on topic "Events of Fadak and Differences between the Islamic Sunni and Shia laws". Event Organizer: University of Religions and Denomination, Qom, Iran. Link: https://www.linkedin.com/events/eventsoffadakanddifferencesbetw6896740341882462208/attendees/.
Tahiiev Akif. Form of government in accordance with Shiite Islamic law. Requirements for the ruler. Modern society and science: current research of young scientists, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Tahiiev Akif. Ijtihad in Islamic Law: Comparative Legal Analysis in Sunni and Shia Madhhabs. International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists "Lomonosov", Moscow, Russia.
Tahiiev Akif. Human rights in Islamic law. International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists "Lomonosov", Moscow, Russia.

Research funding, grants and awards:
  • Goethe Fellowship (funded by Goethe-Ukraine-Fund and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)). October 2022-March 2023.
  • Ernst Mach Grant scholarship, funded by OeAD (Austria ́s Agency for Education and Internationalisation). August-February 2022 (accepted but refused by me due to the legal impossibility of holding two fellowships at the same time).
  • Shiism in the Post-Soviet Space: The Impact of New Media (project funded by IWM). July-August 2022.
  • Qurultay and Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People (part of Non-Territorial Autonomy project (which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no 758015), held in University of Vienna). April-May 2022. Prof. Dr. Börries Kuzmany principal investigator.
  • Dynamic Ijtihad in Shia jurisprudence (project funded by Institute of Knowledge Integration’ Research Grants Program). June-December 2022.
  • Human rights in Islamic law, 2014. The best report in the section of Theory of Law at International Scientific Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists "Lomonosov", Moscow, Russia.
Languages
  • Native Russian and Ukrainian
  • Fluent English
  • Azerbaijani, Turkish, Tatar, Crimean Tatar, Belarusian languages (Basic knowledge)