Roman Anatolyevich Silantyev (russian: Роман Анатольевич Силантьев) is a Russian sociologist Islamic expert, former executive secretary of the Interreligious Council of Russia (IIRC), director of the

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center of the World Russian People's Council, a staff member of the

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Department for External Church Relations. In 2005 Silantyev was relieved from his IIRC posts after the controversial reception of his book ''A Modern History of the Islamic Community in Russia'', criticized both from the

Muslim Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

and

Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or "canonical") ...

sides."Statement by the Orthodox public on Silantyev's book"
In 2007 Silantyev published another book ''A Modern History of Islam in Russia''. In 2008 Silantyev published
Islam in Russia Today
'.

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