Dr. G.R. (Gulnaz) Sibgatullina
Faculty of Humanities
Europese studies
Visiting address
- Kloveniersburgwal 48
Postal address
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Postbus 1619
1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
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Biography
Gulnaz Sibgatullina is an Assistant Professor for Illiberal Regimes in the Department of History, European Studies, and Religious Studies. Her research focuses on Islam in Europe, contemporary Islamic thought, state-church relations, and minority issues in Russia. In addition to these areas of expertise, she also has a keen interest in cultural illiberalism, sociology of religion and religious language, as well as translation studies.
At the UvA, she is part of the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational, and European Studies (ARTES) and the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES).
Her ongoing research project, funded by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Fellowship, brings into the spotlight a broad international network of European converts to Islam that so far has been largely marginalised in both academic and social debates on the role of religion in Europe. Drawing on a wealth of literary works produced by the network members, the project investigates how and why those identifying themselves as white Europeans opt for Islam.
In 2019-21, Gulnaz Sibgatullina was a member of the ERC “The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion 1150-1850 (EuQu)” synergy team. Her personal project examined the politics of the Qur’an translation into Russian and Tatar. In 2014-19, she worked on her doctoral thesis as part of the research group “The Russian language of Islam” led by Prof. Michael Kemper and Prof. Jos Schaeken and funded by The Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Gulnaz Sibgatullina was a visiting scholar at George Washington University (USA), the Goethe University (Germany), the University of Edinburgh (UK), and the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana (USA). In the past, she held the position of Lecturer and Researcher in the department of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Leiden University (the Netherlands), where her research and teaching focused primarily on the sociolinguistics of the Russian language and Christian-Muslim relations in post-Soviet Russia.
She holds a PhD from Leiden University (2019) and a Master's degree from Moscow State Linguistic University (2014).
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Projects and Media
Member of the Illiberalism Studies Program team
Contributor to Russia.post
Contributor to Raam op Rusland (in Dutch)
Author and host of the ACES Cast: Listen on Spotify and Apple
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Publications
2025
- Pink, J., Zadeh, T., Feyzbakhsh, M., Leese, S., Tareen, S., Tschacher, T., Riddell, P. G., Nurtawab, E., Frankel, J. D., Hale Eroğlu, Z., Goto, E., Sibgatullina, G. R., Wilson, M. B., Mykhaylo , Y., Wiegers, G. A., Babinski, P., Loop, J., Saeed, S., Souag, L., ... Ahmad Khan, K. (2025). Translations of the Qurʾān [2025]. In Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān Online Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/1875-3922_EQO_EQCOM_063375
- Sibgatullina, G. (2025). Ismail Gasprinskii. In D. Thomas, & J. Chesworth (Eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. - Volume 23: Russia (1800-1914) (pp. 385-391). (The History of Christian-Muslim Relations; Vol. 51). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715936_004 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. (2025). Musa Iarullakh Bigiev. In D. Thomas, & J. Chesworth (Eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. - Volume 23: Russia (1800-1914) (pp. 566-571). (The History of Chistian-Muslim Relations; Vol. 51). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004715936_004 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. R., & Teitelbaum, B. R. (2025). Sufi Traditionalism, the Radical Right, and Swedish Islam: The Work and Legacy of Tage Lindbom. Journal of Religion in Europe. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-bja10128
2024
Sibgatullina, G. (2024). Ethics of Studying Illiberalism in a Hyperconnected, Polycrisis-defined Era: An Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Illiberalism Studies, 4(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.53483/XCOA3572 [details]- Sibgatullina, G. (2024). On Translating the Qur’an into Turkic Vernaculars: Texts, Ties, and Traditions. In G. Sibgatullina, & G. Wiegers (Eds.), European Muslims and the Qur’an: Practices of Translation, Interpretation, and Commodification (pp. 189-218). (The European Qur'an; Vol. 5). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111140797-009 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. (2024). Research on Conservative Islam in Europe: Navigating Ethical Considerations. Journal of Illiberalism Studies, 4(1), 65-76. https://doi.org/10.53483/XCOX3569 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. (2024). Russia’s conservative religious consensus: forging an illiberal global solidarity. Religion, State & Society, 52(4), 420-422 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2024.2388998 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2024). Illiberalism and Islam. In M. Laruelle (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Illiberalism Oxford University Press. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197639108.013.14
- Sibgatullina, G., & Wiegers, G. (2024). The European Qur’an: Towards an Inclusive Definition. In G. Sibgatullina, & G. Wiegers (Eds.), European Muslims and the Qur'an: Practices of Translation, Interpretation, and Commodification (pp. 1-19). (The European Qur'an; Vol. 5). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111140797-001 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G., & Wiegers, G. (Eds.) (2024). European Muslims and the Qur’an: Practices of Translation, Interpretation, and Commodification. (The European Qur'an; Vol. 5). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111140797 [details]
2023
- Sibgatullina, G. (2023). Translation and the Construction of Conversion Narratives: Language Strategies of Russian Converts to Islam. In H. Israel (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Religion (pp. 348-363). (Routledge handbooks in translation and interpreting studies). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315443485-25 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2023). The Muftis and the Myths: Constructing the Russian “Church for Islam”. Problems of Post-Communism. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10758216.2023.2185899
2022
- Sibgatullina, G. (2022). The Ecology of a Vernacular Qur’an: Rethinking Mūsā Bīgī’s Translation into Türki-Tatar. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 24(3), 46–69. https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2022.0515 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. (2022). When the Other Speaks: Ismāʿīl Gasprinskii and the Concept of Islamic Reformation. Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient, 65(1-2), 214–247. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685209-12341566 [details]
2021
- Kemper, M., & Sibgatullina, G. (2021). Liberal Islamic Theology in Conservative Russia: Taufik Ibragim’s “Qurʾānic Humanism”. Die Welt des Islams, 61(3), 279–307. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-61020002 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. (2021). Translating Islam into the language of the Russian state and the Orthodox Church. In G. Simons (Ed.), The Image of Islam in Russia (pp. 61-74). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2018.1562775 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. R., & Wiegers, G. A. (Accepted/In press). Aljamiado. In Encyclopaedia of Islam Third Edition Brill.
- Sibgatullina, G., & Abbas, T. (2021). Political Conversion to Islam Among the European Right. Journal of Illiberalism Studies, 1(2), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.53483/VCIS3529 [details]
2020
- Sibgatullina, G. (2020). Languages of Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Russia. (Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics; Vol. 46). Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426450 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. (2020). [Review of: R.V. Pandharipande, M. Khemlani David, M. Eisenstein (2020) Language maintenance, revival and shift in the sociology of religion]. Current Issues in Language Planning, 21(4), 454-456. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2020.1763023 [details]
2019
- Sibgatullina, G. (2019). Translating Islam into the language of the Russian state and the Orthodox Church. Religion, State & Society, 47(2), 234-247. https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2018.1562775 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G., & Kemper, M. (2019). The Imperial Paradox: Islamic Eurasianism in Contemporary Russia. In N. Friess, & K. Kaminskij (Eds.), Resignification of Borders: Eurasianism and the Russian World (pp. 97-124). (Ost-West-Express. Kultur und Übersetzung; Vol. 37). Frank & Timme. [details]
2018
- Karimzad, F., & Sibgatullina, G. (2018). Replacing "Them" With "Us": Language Ideologies and Practices of "Purification" on Facebook. INTERNATIONAL MULTILINGUAL RESEARCH JOURNAL, 12(2), 124-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2017.1401449
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2018). Daniil Sysoev: Mission and Martyrdom. In A. K. Bustanov, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Russia’s Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions: Languages of Conversion, Competition and Convergence (pp. 35-54). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351022422
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2018). Language use and education in Islamic religious institutions of Tatarstan (Russia). In M. Djuraeva, & F. V. Tochon (Eds.), Language Policy or the Politics of Language: Re-imagining the Role of Language in a Neoliberal Society (pp. 75-98). Deep University Press.
- Sibgatullina, G., & Kemper, M. (2018). Between Salafism and Eurasianism: Geidar Dzhemal and the Global Islamic Revolution in Russia. In A. K. Bustanov, & M. Kemper (Eds.), Russia's Islam and Orthodoxy beyond the Institutions: Languages of Conversion, Competition and Convergence (pp. 91-108). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351022422, https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2017.1287485 [details]
2017
- Sibgatullina, G. (2017). Daniil Sysoev: Mission and Martyrdom. Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, 28(2), 163-182. https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2017.1287484
- Sibgatullina, G., & Kemper, M. (2017). Between Salafism and Eurasianism: Geidar Dzhemal and the Global Islamic Revolution in Russia. Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, 28(2), 219-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2017.1287485 [details]
2016
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2016). Found to Be on the Fault Line: Discursive identity Construction of the Kriashens. In M. Ivanics, É. Csáki, & Z. Olach (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on the Role of Religions in the Turkic Culture Held on September 9-11, 2015 in Budapest (pp. 277-285). Péter Pázmány Catholic University.
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2016). Rezension: Stéphane A. Dudoignon and Christian Noack (eds.) (2014) Allah’s Kolkhozes. Migration, De-Stalinisation, Privatisation, and the New Muslim Congregations in the Soviet Realm (1950s–2000s). Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 4, 23-24.
2025
- Sibgatullina, G. (2025). [Review of: G. Simons, M. Shterin, E. Shiraev (2023) Islam in Russia: religion, politics and society]. Religion, State & Society, 53(2), 150-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2024.2307147 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2025). Review of "Wie man Imperium buchstabiert: Das ‘Tataren-Lager’ Weinberge 1914–1918", written by Gerdien Jonker & Markus Schlaffke. Die Welt des Islams. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-20250014
2023
- Sibgatullina, G. (2023). The Art of (Not) Being Governed: On Religious Persecution and Freedoms in the 'Russian Empire'. Leidschrift, 38(1), 93-108. [details]
2022
- Sibgatullina, G. (2022). Russian Arabic Edition of the Qurʾān, St. Petersburg, 1787. In J. Pink (Ed.), Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/1875-3922_q3_EQCOM_056211 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. R., & Rakhimova, I. (2022). Arabic Edition of the Qurʾān, Kazan, 1803. In Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/1875-3922_q3_EQCOM_055207
2021
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2021). Review of: Erken Dönem Tatar Türkçesine Ait Çok Lehçeli Bir Metin. Tefsīr-i Noʿmānī. Asiatische Studien. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2021-0011
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2021). Читая Асада, Ахмеда и Халлака: что есть ислам сегодня? Islamology, 10(2), 8-18. https://doi.org/10.24848/islmlg.10.2.01
- Sibgatullina, G., & Kemper, M. (2021). Contesting Boundaries and Producing the Norm: Gender-Related Issues in Islamic Theory and Practice. Islamology, 11(1), 6-8. https://doi.org/10.24848/islmlg.11.1.01 [details]
2020
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2020). Татарлар һәм ислам реформасы проекты: фәнни бәхәсләр, яңа карашлар. Fenni Tatarstan, 2020(2), 143-151. [details]
2025
- Sibgatullina, G. (2025). Islam in Russia’s Domestic and Foreign Policy after 2022. In C. Wendehorst (Ed.), Holy War! Understanding Religions in Putins Russia: Panel held at the meeting of the division of humanities and social sciences of the austrian academy of sciences on 11 april 2024 (pp. 15-25). (Akademie im Dialog - Forschung und Gesellschaft; Vol. 11). Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. [details]
2024
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2024). How the full-scale invasion accelerated Russia's mission as a ‘civilization-state’. Web publication or website, RAAM. https://platformraam.nl/artikelen/2728-how-the-full-scale-invasion-accelerated-russias-mission-as-a-civilization-state
2023
- Sibgatullina, G. (2023). Russian Political Exiles: The Challenges of Forging an Anti-War Movement. Web publication or website, PONARS Eurasia. https://www.ponarseurasia.org/russian-political-exiles-the-challenges-of-forging-an-anti-war-movement/?fbclid=IwAR1yKJYr2DIk4-fE2XBL7fR1aEtBx_clAoJKgGBeKxZ7LqLlbg3NVYf0e_0 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. (2023). The Quest for More Autonomy: Risks and Opportunities for Tatarstan: Russian decolonisation and Eurasia: an imperial legacy?. Web publication or website, ISPI: Italian Institute for International Political Studies. https://www.ispionline.it/en/publication/the-quest-for-more-autonomy-risks-and-opportunities-for-tatarstan-123570 [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. (2023). Why Russia’s exiles struggle to form a united opposition. Web publication or website, RaamopRusland. https://raamoprusland.nl/dossiers/rechtsstaat-en-civil-society/2283-why-russia-s-exiles-struggle-to-form-a-united-opposition [details]
2022
- Sibgatullina, G. (2022). Russia’s Muslim Leaders on the Invasion of Ukraine: United in a Display of Loyalty, Divided in Competition for Power. (PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo; No. 765). PONARS Eurasia. https://www.ponarseurasia.org/russias-muslim-leaders-on-the-invasion-of-ukraine-united-in-a-display-of-loyalty-divided-in-competition-for-power/ [details]
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (Author). (2022). Russia’s Muslim Leaders on Women’s and LGBT+ Rights. Web publication or website, Illiberalism Studies Program. https://www.illiberalism.org/russias-muslim-leaders-on-womens-and-lgbt-rights/
2021
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2021). Ислам в России 1990-х. In K. Il'ia (Ed.), 90-е: История Великого Поворота. - Том 6: Публичная сфера и интеллектуальная жизнь
2023
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2023). Is Tatarstan eyeing decolonization?. Web publication or website, Raam op Rusland. https://www.raamoprusland.nl/dossiers/binnenlandse-politiek/2292-is-tatarstan-eying-decolonization
2022
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (2022). De taal van de machtigen: over het discours van de Russische islamitische elites. ZemZem, 2, 116-118.
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (Author). (2022). Before Dismantling the Federation: A few things to know about Tatarstan. Web publication or website, Russia.Post. https://russiapost.info/regions/tatarstan
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (Author). (2022). Changing the tune: Can Russia’s ethnic minority musicians challenge imperialist connotations of Russianess?. Web publication or website, Russia.Post. http://russiapost.net/regions/changing_the_tune
- Sibgatullina, G. R., & Kemper, M. (2022). Islam in Russia. Digital or Visual Products, PONARS Eurasia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LON3gYh_c&list=PLnYhtecpqY0gQ0kwMzY4LVQ5I8Veyf37T&index=20&ab_channel=PONARSEurasia
2021
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (Author). (2021). History of Conversion to Islam in Russia: An Account Still to Be Written. Web publication or website, . https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/sice-blog/history-of-conversion-to-islam-in-russia-an-account-still-to-be-written
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (Author). (2021). The first complete Russian Qurʾān translation (1716). Web publication or website, Qur’ān 12-21. https://quran12-21.org/en/contexts/postnikov
2020
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (Author), & Schaeken, J. (Author). (2020). Ook bij Russische feministen woedt een taalstrijd over 'genderinclusiviteit'. Web publication or website, Raam op Rusland. https://raamoprusland.nl/dossiers/rechtsstaat-en-civil-society/1512-ook-bij-russische-feministen-woedt-een-taalstrijd-over-genderinclusiviteit
2017
- Sibgatullina, G. R. (Author), & Schaeken, J. (Author). (2017). Hoe staat, orthodoxie en islam elkaars taal spreken in Rusland. Web publication or website, Raam op Rusland. https://www.raamoprusland.nl/dossiers/roesski-mir/501-hoe-staat-orthodoxie-en-islam-elkaars-taal-spreken-in-rusland
Media appearance
- Sibgatullina, G. (29-09-2025). Van Magnitogorsk tot de Midwest: de teleurstelling over het liberalisme [Web] Raam. Van Magnitogorsk tot de Midwest: de teleurstelling over het liberalisme. https://platformraam.nl/artikelen/2905-van-magnitogorsk-tot-de-midwest-de-teleurstelling-over-het-liberalisme
- Sibgatullina, G. (30-01-2025). De Goede Gesprekken #31: Commissie prijzen en voordrachten [Radio] De Goede Gesprekken. De Goede Gesprekken #31: Commissie prijzen en voordrachten. https://open.spotify.com/episode/6yHr33irhLgahalQsoz6n4?si=-Zi5rcyGSaKNtDUlC-monA
- Sibgatullina, G. (24-03-2024). De IS-tak die de aanslag in Moskou heeft opgeëist [Radio] OVT. De aanslag in Moskou. https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/ovt/acb58f5e-8e3c-4599-aecf-ae84e263fe8a/2024-03-22-de-is-tak-die-de-aanslag-in-moskou-heeft-opgeeist
- Sibgatullina, G. (19-01-2024). Waarom gaan mensen massaal de straat op in de Russische deelrepubliek Basjkortostan? [Radio] NOS Oog op morgen. Basjkortostan. https://www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/met-het-oog-op-morgen/101926/met-het-oog-op-morgen-19-01-2024
- Sibgatullina, G. (28-08-2023). wat de Russen denken nu het land steeds meer opgesloten raakt [Radio] NPO1. Onderzoek in oorlogstijd. https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/spraakmakers/9666ce19-70a1-4857-9c85-5dfa4e7adb09/2023-08-28-gulnaz-sibgatullina-geeft-inzicht-over-wat-…
- Sibgatullina, G. (12-04-2023). Russian decolonisation and Eurasia [Web] Global Voices. Russian decolonisation and Eurasia. https://globalvoices.org/2023/04/12/russian-decolonisation-and-eurasia-an-imperial-legacy-risks-and-opportunities-for-tatarstan/
- Sibgatullina, G. (23-12-2022). Music Against Imperial Russianness [Web] Humanotions. Music Against Imperial Russianness. https://www.humanotions.com/post/music-against-imperial-russianness-an-interview
- Sibgatullina, G. (04-10-2022). Zal Poetin zijn land uit elkaar doen vallen? ‘Rusland is een koloniaal rijk in de ontkenningsfase’ [Print] Knack.be. Zal Poetin zijn land uit elkaar doen vallen? ‘Rusland is een koloniaal rijk in de ontkenningsfase’. https://www.knack.be/nieuws/wereld/zal-poetin-zijn-land-uit-elkaar-doen-vallen-rusland-is-een-koloniaal-rijk-in-de-ontkenningsfase/
- Sibgatullina, G. (22-06-2022). De beweging van conservatieve Europeanen naar de islam [Web] UvA. De beweging van conservatieve Europeanen naar de islam. https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/faculteiten/nl/faculteit-der-geesteswetenschappen/nieuws/2022/06/de-beweging-van-conservatieve-europeanen-…
- Sibgatullina, G. (10-05-2021). Rusiyädän galimnär kitä: Amsterdamdagï tatar galimäse monïng säbäplären anglata [Web] Azatliq Radiosi - Radio Liberty Europe. Rusiyädän galimnär kitä: Amsterdamdagï tatar galimäse monïng säbäplären anglata (in Tatar). https://www.azatliq.org/a/31244112.html
- Sibgatullina, G. (20-04-2021). ACES Cast [Radio] ACES Cast (podcast). Host for the ACES Cast. https://aces.uva.nl/research/aces-cast/aces-cast.html
- Sibgatullina, G. (07-04-2020). Avrupalï Gölnaz [Print] Idel. Aurupalï Gölnaz (in Tatar). http://idel-tat.ru/news/kultura-tt/aurupaly-golnaz
Talk / presentation
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (21-10-2025). Muslim Identity Between State Traditionalism and Decolonial Resistance in Contemporary Russia, The Impact of Russian-Ukrainian War on Muslims in Russia and in the Post-Soviet Area, Helsinki.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (5-6-2025). Ethics Committees: Whose Safety is Being Protected?, Perilous Inquiry, Karlstad.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (6-5-2025). Russia’s Religious Soft Power: Building Illiberal Solidarities, Global Illiberalism. Comparative Approaches and Transnational Connections, Paris.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (6-3-2025). 2022-2025: Developments in Russia’s Muslim communities, Academic Bridges: War and Peace.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (25-1-2025). Comment on the panel: "The Russians, the regime, and the war: support, opposition or apathy?", Russia and Europe in Wartime, Brussels.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (25-10-2024). Challenging international liberal order: authoritarian states and the geopolitics of religious soft power, An Illiberal Transnational? Exploring Crossborder Linkages in Antiliberal Movements, Washington.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (21-9-2024). Spreken in tongen: Taal en religie in Rusland, Levende Talen Russisch, Leiden.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (4-9-2024). Academic Freedom: What's At Stake?, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies (NIAS). https://nias.knaw.nl/events/nias-opening-academic-year-2024-2025/
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (14-6-2024). Muslim Voter Dynamics Amidst the Rise of Populist Far-Right Parties: Push and Pull Factors, Politicologenetmaal 2024, Maastricht.
- Kaya, A. (speaker), Vos, C. (speaker) & Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (31-5-2024). Nativist and Islamist Radicalism in Europe, UvA Spui25. https://spui25.nl/programma/nativist-and-islamist-radicalism-in-europe
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (15-5-2024). Islamic Critique of The Empire: Decolonial and Anti-Liberal, Postcolonial, Decolonial, Post-imperial, De-imperial, Rijeka.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (9-5-2024). Languages of Islam and Christianity in post-Soviet Russia, Escuela de Estudios Árabes.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (11-4-2024). Holy War! Understanding Religions in Putin's Russia, Austrian Academy of Sciences.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (27-3-2024). Muslims and the Populist Far-Right: Shifting Sensibilities, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Luneburg.
- Burlyuk, O. (invited speaker), Ivashchenko, O. (invited speaker) & Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (8-3-2024). Eastsplainers #10: Academia, Eastsplainers (lecture series), Amsterdam. https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/subsites/vox-pop/en/events/2024/02/eastsplainers-10-academia.html
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (29-2-2024). Muslims in the Russia-Ukraine war: a perspective from both sides, Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (10-2-2024). Eurasianism in post-Soviet official Islamic discourse, Neo-Eurasianist Histories:
Imperial Politics and Narrations of the Past, Berlin. - Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (8-2-2024). Freedom and Regaining independence from the Soviet oppression, Eastern European Students Association Amsterdam.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (3-11-2023). Opportunism or Ideological Convergence? Evolving Stances of European (Far-Right) Parties Toward Muslims, Grassroots Unrest in Europe and the Erosion of Liberal Democracy, Washington.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (6-7-2023). Onderzoek in oorlogstijd, REKA-conferentie Van nieuwe realiteit tot nieuw beleid: kansen in Oost-Europa, The Hague. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BhzAVYos4w
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) & Lok, M. (speaker) (17-6-2023). Research on Conservative Islam in Europe: Navigating Ethical Considerations, Researching Illiberalism: Rights, Roles and Responsibilities of a Researcher, Amsterdam.
- Lok, M. (speaker) & Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (16-6-2023). Illiberal Ideas: Illiberal Ideas: An Anatomy of Intellectual Historians and Illiberalism, Researching Illiberalism: Rights, Roles and Responsibilities of a Researcher, Amsterdam.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (14-6-2023). Uncommon Transitions? Memory and Forgetting between Eastern and Western Europe, Spui 25. https://spui25.nl/programma/uncommon-transitions-memory-and-forgetting-between-eastern-and-western-europe
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (2-5-2023). Illiberalism and Islam: Conservative adaptations of Islamic Thought in Europe, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (14-2-2023). Locating the European Qur'an: Translation and the Political Uses of the Islamic Holy Book, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London WC1E 7HU, UK..
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (12-1-2023). White Islam: an ideological experiment, Antiliberal Internationalism (20th C.), Amsterdam.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (4-11-2022). Islam and Illiberalism, Analysing illiberalism in Europe: Concepts, methodologies, constraints
, Amsterdam. - Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (7-10-2022). Decolonizing Russian and East European Studies, Decolonizing Russian and East European Studies: Perspectives from the Global South and East, Leiden.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (8-9-2022). Meer- of minderheid? Bekeerlingen tot de islam en de Europese moslimgemeenschap, Facultaire opening academisch jaar 2022-2023, FGw, Amsterdam.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (6-7-2022). The Oriental Trail: Music and Poetry in Darqawiyya-Habibiyya Sufi community (1969-1979), The 8th Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, Cork.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (22-6-2022). Debating Translatability: The early 20th-century Tatar press on Qurʾān Translations, Daʿwa and Qur'an translation in the first decades of the 20th, Freiburg.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (18-6-2022). Modern Translation of Islamic Literature into English by Converts to Islam, Canon or Code? Standardising and Transmitting Islamic Law, Bergen.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (26-5-2022). Islam and the "Russian World", Fordham University. https://forever.fordham.edu/s/1362/18/interior.aspx?sid=1362&gid=1&pgid=10627&content_id=11416
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (6-5-2022). Embrace of Islam by the European Right: Conversion, Rapprochement or Opportunism?, 26th Annual World Convention of the Association for
the Study of Nationalities (ASN). - Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (6-5-2022). The History of Tatar and Russian Translations of the Qur’an, Recognizing Sacred Scriptures – the Qur’an and the Bible, Abu Dhabi.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (15-4-2022). Ideiia islamskoi reformatsii (The concept of Islamic Reformation), The Ibn Sina Foundation.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (5-3-2022). Illiberalism and Islam: Contesting economic and cultural liberalism, Theologisches Forum Christentum–Islam: Rechtspopulismus und Religion
. - Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (14-1-2022). European Islam: Remedy, Refuge or Repression?, European University Institute Florence. https://www.eui.eu/events?id=545645&fbclid=IwAR3tOIEWmiimwVviiDaQTso7tCqhl3HtdM_VOg9Nl15iaX9smA9pN9gXkC0
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (3-12-2021). Tatary kak chast' evorpeiskoi ummy: proshloe i nastoiashchee, Tatarovedenie v situatsii smeny paradigm: teoriia, metodologiia, praktika, Kazan.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (29-11-2021). In the Service of an Empire: Qur’anic Studies under Peter the Great, The Turkish Wars and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (9-7-2021). The Birth of an Islamic Language: on the Qur’an Commentary in Türki-Tatar, The International Qur’anic Studies Association Conference 2021, Palermo.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (25-6-2021). Musa Jarallah Bigi's Rahmat-i ilahiya burhanlarï, The European Qur’an, Santander.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (28-5-2021). Is the translator a double-agent? Liron Khamidullin and the Making of Tatar Literary Canon, Inherit the World: Strategies of translatio in the Soviet Literary Cosmopolis.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (5-5-2021). Translation, Exegesis and Cultural Transfer: On the languages of Islam in post-Soviet Russia, University of Freiburg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B56V-cMX-ME&ab_channel=GloQur%E2%80%93TheGlobalQur%27an
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (26-3-2021). Ecology of a vernacular Qurʾān: The case of Mūsā Bīgī’s Translation into Turki-Tatar, International Workshop: Qur’an and Bible.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (5-3-2021). On Translating the Qur’ān into Turkic Vernaculars: Texts, ties and traditions, Qur’ān translations and interpretations by European Muslims .
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (7-12-2020). In-between Russia’s and Russian Islam: How speaking for and about Islam has changed in Russia over the past thirty years, European University at St. Petersburg.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) & Pandharipande, R. (speaker) (3-12-2020). Religious Performatives in Multilingual Context, 4. Internationalen Arbeitstagung Religionslinguistik.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (17-11-2020). Languages of Islam and Christianity, Higher School of Economics.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (14-11-2020). Confronting Modernity: On the Tatar Qur’an Translations Produced at the Turn of the 20th Century, 2020 ASEEES Virtual Convention.
- Sibgatullina, G. (speaker) (12-10-2020). Crossing Religious Borders: Translation, Conversion and Faith in Central Eurasia, Online Week of Central Eurasian Studies.
Others
- Sibgatullina, G. (organiser) & Errens, L. (organiser) (17-10-2025). The Autocratic Appeal: Religion and the Resilience of Illiberal Politic, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (participant) & Kurnaz, N. (participant) (15-10-2025). Verkiezingsdebat: Een zeker bestaan voor iedereen?, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (participant) (21-1-2025). The Authoritarian Black Box, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (participant) (20-1-2025 - 21-1-2025). Digital methods in researching authoritarian contexts, Amsterda (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (participant) & Wiegers, G. (participant) (14-11-2024). Religious Radicalisations and a Crisis of Culture, Amsterdan (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Kholmatova, N. (organiser), Burlyuk, O. (organiser) & Sibgatullina, G. (organiser) (3-10-2024 - 4-10-2024). Looking Back, Moving Forward: Interdisciplinary Decolonial Dialogues on Central Asia and Eastern Europe, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://aces.uva.nl/content/events/2024/10/looking-back-moving-forward-interdisciplinary-decolonial-dialogues-on-central-asia-and-eastern-europe.html
- Kholmatova, N. (organiser), Sibgatullina, G. (organiser) & Burlyuk, O. (organiser) (3-10-2024). The Kazakh Spring: Protests and Pro-democracy Movements in Autocracies, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://www.spui25.nl/programma/the-kazakh-spring
- Errens, L. (organiser), de Boer, N. (organiser) & Sibgatullina, G. (organiser) (13-9-2024). Does love + freedom really equal (Art.) 2?, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (organiser) & Bialasiewicz, L. (organiser) (16-6-2023 - 17-6-2023). Researching Illiberalism: Rights, Roles and Responsibilities of a Researcher, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://aces.uva.nl/content/events/2023/06/researching-illiberalism.html
- Sibgatullina, G. (organiser) & Bialasiewicz, L. (organiser) (16-6-2023 - 17-6-2023). Researching Illiberalism: Rights, Roles and Responsibilities of a Researcher, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (participant) (18-5-2023 - 20-5-2023). 27th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), New York City (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (participant) (2-12-2022 - 3-12-2022). The Muslim Self: A Transregional History, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (organiser) & Bialasiewicz, L. (organiser) (3-11-2022 - 4-11-2022). Analysing illiberalism in Europe: Concepts, methodologies, constraints, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (organiser) & Wiegers, G. (organiser) (5-3-2021). Qur’ān translations and interpretations by European Muslims (organising a conference, workshop, ...). https://euqu.eu/2021/01/25/quran-translations-and-interpretations-by-european-muslims/
- Sibgatullina, G. (participant) (8-10-2020). Project meeting. Opening of the second phase of Transottomanica, 2020–2023. An external affiliate (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (participant) (9-3-2020 - 11-3-2020). The Latin Qur’an, 1143-1500: translation, transmission, interpretation, Barcelona (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- Sibgatullina, G. (participant) (15-10-2019 - 18-10-2019). The launch conference of the EuQu project (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
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Sibgatullina, G. (2024). Ethics of Studying Illiberalism in a Hyperconnected, Polycrisis-defined Era: An Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Illiberalism Studies, 4(1), 1-7.