Senior Fellow, Ph. D. in Philosophy

Main research interests:

Islamic Studies

Religion and Conflict

Religion and Politics

Religion and Peacekeeping

Research topics:

History of Islam in Ukraine and Post-Soviet countries

Modern Sufism

Political activism in Islam

Religion and Nationalism

PhD thesis:

Sufism and Islamism: global and local context. Degree institution – Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 2011.

History of Islam in Ukraine in the late 19th – early 21^th centuries. Degree institution – National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, 2021.

List of main publications:

MONOGRAPHS

Aulin O., Brylov D., Prorochenko N., Yarosh O. (2019). Islam and Politics: Ideology, Movements, Organizations. Kyiv (In Ukrainian).

Brylov D. (Ed.) (2018). Religious Studies: Workbook. Kyiv: Dukh I Litera (In Ukrainian).

ARTICLES

Kalenychenko, T. and D. Brylov. (2022, September 13). Ukrainian Religious Actors and Organizations After Russia’s Invasion: The Struggle for Peace. Transatlantic Policy Network on Religion and Diplomacy Policy Brief #2. Washington, DC: Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs.

Brylov, D. “Les «légions musulmanes» de l’armée russe”. Bulletin de l’Observatoire international du religieux, N°37 [en ligne], mai 2022. https://obsreligion.cnrs.fr/bulletin/les-legions-musulmanes-de-larmee-russe-version-francaise/

Brylov, D. et T. Kalenychenko “«Celui qui sauve une vie sauve le monde entier»: les communautés religieuses ukrainiennes pendant la guerre”. Bulletin de l’Observatoire international du religieux, N°37 [en ligne], mai 2022. https://obsreligion.cnrs.fr/bulletin/celui-qui-sauve-une-vie-sauve-le-monde-entier-les-communautes-religieuses-ukrainiennes-pendant-la-guerre-version-francaise/

Brylov, D. (2022). “Marseillaise Versus Jihadism, or the French Experience in Combating Islamist Radicalization.” Shìdnij svìt, 2: 95-109 (In Ukrainian). https://doi.org/10.15407/orientw2022.02.095

Brylov, D. and T. Kalenychenko. (2022, March 30). Religious Mobilization in Ukraine. The United States Institute of Peace. https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/03/religious-mobilization-ukraine

Brylov, D. (2022). “The Islamic University in Ukraine: Between Ummah Interests and State Recognition”. In: Alibašić, A. (Ed.), Rethinking Islamic Education in Europe. Sarajevo: Center for Advanced Studies. 283-296.

Brylov, D. (2021). “Political Practices of Ukrainian Muslims: Between the Apolitical and the Radical,” e-Rhizome, 3(2): 103-120. doi: 10.5507/rh.2021.007

Brylov, D., Kalenychenko, T. and A. Kryshtal. (2021), The Religious Factor in Conflict Research on the Peacebuilding Potential of Religious Communities in Ukraine. Analytical Report. PAX.

Brylov, D. (2021). “Being a Minority: Muslim Minorities and Religious Education in Ukraine”. In: E. Aslan & M. Hermansen (Eds.), Religious Diversity at School: Educating for New Pluralistic Contexts, Springer VS, Wiesbaden. 363-376.

Brylov, D. and T. Kalenychenko. (2021). “Religion and Nationalism in Post-Soviet Space: Between State, Society and Nation”. In: J.S. Cornelio, F. Gauthier, T. Martikainen & L. Woodhead (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society. New York: Routledge. 399-409. doi: 10.4324/9781315646435-33

Bogdan, O., Brylov, D. and T. Kalenychenko. (2021). “In Times of Crisis: Faith-Based Social Engagement and Religious Contestations in Ukraine Since Maidan 2013-2014”. In: M. Glatzer & P.C. Manuel (Eds), Faith-Based Organizations and Social Welfare: Associational Life and Religion in Contemporary Eastern Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 81-103. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-44707-6_5

Brylov, D. (2020). “Halal Industry of Ukraine in the Period of Independence.” Sociology of Islam, 8: 409-422. doi: 10.1163/22131418-08030005

Brylov, D. (2019, March). Challenges of religious situation in Ukraine. Analytical Report. PAX.

Brylov, D. (2019). “Die transnationale Sufi-Bewegung Al-Ahbasch in der Ukraine”, Religion und Gesellschaft in Ost und West, 7-8: 24-27.

Brylov, D. (2018). “Islam in Ukraine: Between the Ukrainian and the Russian Languages”, Religion, State & Society, 46 (2): 156-173. doi: 10.1080/09637494.2018.1456766

Brylov, D. (2016). “Transformed Perceptions of Islam and Muslims in Ukraine in the Wake of the Social and Political Changes Caused by Euromaidan”, in E. Aslan, R. Ebrahim & M. Hermansen (Eds.), Islam, Religions, and Pluralism in Europe, Springer VS, Wiesbaden. 267-284.

Brylov, D. (2015). “Ukrainske muslimer I væbnet Jihad med Rusland”, Magasinet rØst, 7: 16-19.

Brylov, D. (2014). “Ukrainian Modernist Groups in International Context,” Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia, 53(3): 72-80.

Brylov, D. (2013). “Islamic Education Between Tradition and Modernization: The Ukrainian Example”, in E. Aslan & M. Rausch (Eds.) in cooperation with S. Sertkan and Z. Windisch, Islamic Education in Secular Societies, Wien: Peter Lang. 205-221.

Brylov D. and O. Yarosh (2011). “Muslim communities and Islamic network institutions in Ukraine: contesting authorities in shaping of Islamic localities.” In: K. Górak-Sosnowska (Ed.), Muslims in Poland and Eastern Europe: Widening the European Discourse on Islam, Warsaw: University of Warsaw. 252-265.

Brilow D. (2010). “Sufizm na Ukrainie: historyczna retrospekcja a stan współczesny,” NOMOS, 69/70: 31-38.