Manuscripta Orientalia - Manuscripta Orientalia Prof. Aleksandr Kudelin

Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Institute of Asian and African studies (Moscow State University)

Education and Scholarly career

The Arabic Department of Historical-philological faculty of the Institute of Oriental languages at Moscow State University (now the Institute of Asian and African studies) (1967);
Practice at the University of Tunis (1965—1966);
PhD program at A. M. Gorky Institute for world literature, USSR Academy of Sciences;
PhD thesis “The Main Genres of the Arab-Spanish Classic Poetry of the Era of Prosperity (the End of X — the Middle of the XII century)”. A. M. Gorky Institute for world literature, USSR Academy of Sciences (1970);
Dr. Sci. thesis “The Concept of Canon in medieval Arabic poetics”. A. M. Gorky Institute for world literature, USSR Academy of Sciences (1985);
A. M. Gorky Institute for world literature, Russian Academy of Sciences: Deputy Director (1989), Director of the (2004—2015);
Correspondent member (2000), full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003).

Research interests

History of medieval, modern and contemporary Arabic literature.

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Russian Academy of Sciences