Vol. 5 No. 1 March 1999

Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research

CONTENTS

EDITORIAL BOARD - 3  Lives Devoted to Learning - 3     TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH - 7 Val. Polosin. "All is Numbers"? An Unknown Numerical Component in the Design of Medieval Arabic Manuscripts - 7 O. Scheglova. Lithograph Versions of Persian Manuscripts of Indian Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century - 12 T. Sultanov. Authors and Authorship in Persian and Turkic Historical Writings - 23 E. Vasilyeva. The First Persian, French and Russian Editions of the "Sharaf-nāma" - 27     TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION - 32 E. Rezvan. The Qur'an and Its World: VIII/2. West-Östlichen Divans (the Qur'an in Russia) - 32     PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT - 63 A. Khalidov. An Arabic Composite Manuscript of Tales from the Collection of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies - 63     BOOK REVIEWS - 70 Ahmad Muhammad Issa. Painting in Islam. Between Prohibition and Aversion. Istanbul: Waqf for Research on Islamic History, Art and Culture, 1996, 137 pp., text in English (pp. 1 - 56), text in Arabic (pp. 80 - 137), colour plates (pp. 57 - 75).by F. Abdullaeva - 70 E. Balicka-Witakowska. La Crucifixion sans Crucifié dans l'art éthiopien. Recherches sur la service de l'iconographie chrétienne de l'Antiquité tardive. - Bibliotheca nubica et aethiopica, No. 4, herausgegeben von P. O. Scholz. Warsaw: 1997, 1888, 108 pp. by V. Zalesskaya - 71

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AUTHORS

Dr. Firuza I. Abdullaeva - Associate Professor of Persian at the Oriental faculty of the St. Petersburg State University, specialist in Iranian philology and Islamic culture, author of several works in the field.

Prof. Dr. Anas B. Khalidov - Head of the Near Eastern Department at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, expert in Arabic manuscripts and literature, specialist in the field of the Arabic language, author of several monographs and numerous articles.

Dr. Valery V. Polosin - Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the Arabic manuscript tradition, author of one monograph and a number of articles.

Dr. Efim A. Rezvan - Deputy Director of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in Arabic and Islamic studies, author of several monographs and numerous articles dealing with Arab-Russian relations, the history of Islam and oriental studies computing.

Prof. Dr. Olimpiada P. Scheglova - Leading Researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in the field of Persian manuscripts and lithographs, author of a number of catalogues and numerous articles.

Prof. Dr. Tursun I. Sultanov - Head of the Chair of the history of Central Asia and Caucasus at the St. Petersburg State University, specialist in Central Asian history and manuscripts, author of several monographs and numerous articles in the field.

Prof. Dr. Evgenia I. Vasilyeva - Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, expert in Kurdish history and historiography, author of a number of publications of texts dealing with Kurdish history, as well as of numerous articles in the field.

Prof. Dr. Vera N. Zalesskaya - Head of the Department of Byzantium and Near East at the State Hermitage, specialist in the Byzantine applied art, member of the Palestinian Society, editor of the journal Byzantino-Rossica, author of two monographs and numerous articles.