Abisheva Madina MagazovnaFarabi University

Abisheva Madina Magazovna

18 february, 2025

In 1995, she graduated from the Department of Iranian Studies at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University with a specialization in "Historian-Orientalist." During the 1993-1994 academic year, she completed an internship in Persian at the Dehkhoda International Center at Tehran University in Iran. She graduated from high school with a silver medal. Her professional career began as an assistant at the Department of History of Asian and African Countries at KazNU. She pursued postgraduate studies in the specialty "070003 – World History" and holds the degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences.

In 2000, she was invited to work at the Department of Oriental Studies at L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU) in Astana. From 2013 to 2019, she served as Vice Dean for Research at the Faculty of International Relations at ENU. Since 2019, she has been the Chief Consultant at the International Center for Interfaith and Interreligious Dialogue under the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

She is the author of more than 50 articles and analytical works, including two articles published in journals indexed in the Scopus database (2017, 2019) and the textbook "History of Shiism in Iran" for Orientalists.