IRCICA’s fourth symposium on the theme “Islamic Civilization in Volga-Ural Region” was held in Ufa, the capital city of Bashkortostan, on 21-22 October 2010. The symposium was organized jointly with the Ministry of Education and Sciences of the Russian Federation, the Government of Bashkortostan, and Bashkir State University. H.E. President Rustem Zakievitch Khamitov, President of Bashkortostan Republic, gave his patronage to the event and participated in the opening ceremony. In addition to the working sessions on different topics and as part of the symposium, a separate conference with 20 presentations was dedicated to the eminent Bashkir scholar Ahmed Zeki Velidi on his 120th birth anniversary. The papers of the symposium are published in this book in their original languages of presentation: there are 71 papers in Russian, 6 in English and 4 in Bashkir.
