He is known for his work documenting and studying the indigenous cultures and languages of Russian Tatars.

He serves as a rector of Moscow Islamic University[1] and is the consultant of mufti on the Clerical Muslim Board of the Russian Federation.

He graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities.

In 2002 he received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography on the theme: "The history of the Muslim community during the period from the 14th to the 20th century".

(His supervisor was Alexeï Malachenko, a member of the Scientific Council of The Carnegie Moscow Center[2]