'[1] Ataullah Bogdan Kopański married Mariam bint Abd ur-Rahman, whom he met in Syria, and has four children with her, Khalid, Tareq, Summaya and Saleheddin.

[2] In 1962, when only 14, he was fascinated by the success of the Arab national and anti-colonial forces that defeated the French colonial armies in the Algerian War, gaining independence for their country.

[3] On the introduction of martial law in Poland on December 13, 1981, the leadership and activists of Solidarity were summarily rounded up by the military junta presided by General Wojciech Jaruzelski.

[5] Hajji Kopański's research initially focused on the relations between Poland–Lithuania, the Osmanli Sultanate, and the Crimean Khanate, before moving to the history of Muslims and Islam in Eurasia.

His other project is to construct a multimedia imago mundi for his students and colleagues, which he is compiling from photographs, films and audio material gathered during his extensive annual research trips across the Mediterranean, the Western, Central and Southeast Asia].