Kadyr Kurmanbekovich Malikov - COMMISSION ON INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE
Kadyr Kurmanbekovich Malikov
Kyrgyzstan
Biography
Member of the International Public Chamber for the 2025-2030 term.
Director of the Independent Analytical Research Center "Religion, Law and Politics".
From 1997 to 2002, he studied and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Jordan in Amman, in the Faculty of Sharia, specializing in "Islamic Jurisprudence and its Foundations" (fiqh wa'l usuluhu). In 2005, he received an academic degree (DIEA) as a research specialist in Islamic and Arabic studies from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Department of Arab, Islamic and Oriental Studies), the topic: "The Dynamics of the Development of Religious Identity of the Peoples of Central Asia after the Collapse of the USSR." In 2005, he received a diploma-certificate for a special course on "Conflict Resolution and Security Issues in Central and Southeast Asia" at the Faculty of Political Science, Department of International Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. In 2007, he defended his doctoral dissertation, where he received the academic degree of Doctor of the Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain. Doctoral dissertation topic (DEA): "Religious and ideological transformations in the context of political Islam in the Fergana Valley (a comparative analysis of processes in Central Asia and the Middle East). From 2011 to the present - Acting Professor of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic (Department of International Relations and Law). From 2024 to the present - Member of the Expert Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic on Interethnic and Confessional Policy. From 2023 to the present - Advisor to the Director of the State Committee on Religious Affairs under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic. From 2023 to the present - International Expert of the UNCTAD. In 2013-2018, he was a member of the Public Expert Council under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic. From 2019 to the present - Member of the Sharia Council of Bakai Bank. In 2018-2020, he was a member of the Council of Ulema of the Kyrgyz Republic, and from 2020-2021, Deputy Mufti of the Kyrgyz Republic. From 2018 - 2020 UNDP expert (on the rehabilitation program for those convicted of extremism). Since 2014, he has been the canonical editor of the Islamic magazine al-UMMA, and from 2009 to 2012, he was a member of the editorial board of the Islamic magazine Medina, Russian Federation. In 2008–2010, he was a public advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs on extremism issues, and from 2011 to 2014, he was a member of the Supervisory Board under the State Drug Control Service of the Kyrgyz Republic. In 2011–2012, he worked at the OSCE Academy as a teacher and lecturer in the "Political Islam" master's course. 2007–2009, American University of Central Asia (CISI), Center for Social Research. 2006–2008 — Chief Research Fellow, Institute for Strategic Analysis and Forecasting, KRSU.
Awarded the Order of Public Diplomacy.
PRESIDENT of the International Public Chamber visited Kyrgyzstan
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE NAIC "RELIGION, LAW AND POLITICS"
VISIT TO BISHKEK DURING THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN