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.