Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research. Vol. 25 No. 2 December 2019
CONTENTS
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TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION — 3
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E. Rezvan, M. Rezvan. Arabian Spices and Rites of Passage — 3
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A. Kudriavtceva. “And it is God who has Appointed a Place of Rest for You of Your Houses, and He Has Appointed for You of the Skins of the Cattle Houses You Find Light on the Day that you Journey, and on the Day you Abide” — 9
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M. Rodionov, M. Suvorov. Rain in South Arabian Poetry: from Rain Prayer to Poetic Metaphor — 19
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V. Rozov. Why was Muhammad Nursed by the Bedouins? The Institute of Milk Kinship in Pre-Islamic Arabia in the Light of the Hadith — 28
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V. Drozdov. Problem of the Authorship of Fakhr al-Din ‘Iraqi with Regard to the ‘Ushshaq-nama Poem Revisited — 32 |
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TEXT AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH — 37
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O. Yastrebova, S. Kostikov. A Bondsman of Two Monarchs: Documents on the Persian Kirakyaraq Khwaja Rahmat's Mission to Moscow in 1629—1631 — 37
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PRESENTING THE COLLECTION — 47
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I. Stasevich. Children's Dolls in St. Petersburg Kunstkamera Kazakh Collection — 47
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PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT — 54
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S. Shomakhmadov. The Tangut Dharanis Collection in Siddham Script from the IOM, RAS. Part II — 54
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BOOK REVIEWS — 68
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P. Basharin. Badr al‑Din Muhammad b. ‘Abd Allah al‑Shibli. Akam al‑marjan fi ahkam al‑jann, ed. with an introd. by Edward Badeen. Beirut: Orient Institut Beirut im Kommission bei Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 2017 (Bibliotheca Islamica Bd. 57). Pp. 791+72. ISBN 978-3-87997-700-0; 978-614-432-470-7
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M. Rodionov. Julien Dufour. Huit siècles de poésie chantée au Yémen. Langue, mètres et formes du humayni. Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2011. 454 p. ISBN 978-2-86820-7821
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Vol. 25. Nos. 1—2 — 72
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AUTHORS
Dr. Pavel V. Basharin — PhD in Philosophy, Director of the Centre of Iranian Studies in the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow; Assistant professor of the Department of Modern East of the Faculty of History, Political Science and Law in the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow.
Dr. Vladimir A. Drozdov — PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Iranian Philology of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies of St. PetersburgStateUniversity. Research interests: classical Persian literature, Sufi Persian literature, Islamic mysticism, Arabic and Persian writings on the theme of mystical love.
Mr. Sergey E. Kostikov — research assistant, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University; PhD student of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg State University. Research interests: classical Persian literature, Islamic studies, Islamic doxography.
Dr. Anna Yu. Kudriavtceva — academic secretary of the International Centre for Islamic Studies; junior research fellow of the Department of Central Asia, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). Specialist in Qur’ānic and Islamic studies, the Qur’ān and pre-Islamic poetry, Muslim ritual.
Prof. Dr. Efim A. Rezvan — Editor-in-Chief, Manuscripta Orientalia, International Journal for Oriental Manuscripts Research, Director, International Centre for Islamic Studies, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg); Professor of UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, Russian Scientific Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage named after D. Likhachev.
Dr. Maryam E. Rezvan — head of the Department of Central Asia, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RussianAcademy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). Specialist in the Qur’anic studies and Islamic magic, author of a monograph and a series of articles in the field.
Prof. Mikhail A. Rodionov — Chief researcher in the Department of South and Southwest Asia, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences. Specialist in the Middle East cultural and social anthropology and field ethnography. Author of many articles and books in Russian, English and Arabic.
Mr. Vladimir A. Rozov — PhD student of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies, researcher at the Research Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Social Processes, St. Petersburg State University. Area of interests: Islamic studies, comparative studies of religion.
Dr. Safarali H. Shomakhmadov — the senior researcher of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia). Specialist in Central Asian Buddhist manuscripts.
Dr. Inga V. Stasevich — Senior Research Fellow, Department of Central Asia, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) Russian Academy of Sciences. The main area of scientific interests is the ethnography of Central Asia's peoples, the study of traditional material and spiritual culture, the regional specifics of Central Asian Islam.
Dr. Mikhail N. Suvorov — Professor of Arabic language and literature, St. PetersburgStateUniversity. Specialist in Yemeni folk poetry and Yemeni modern literature.
Dr. Olga M. Yastrebova — research fellow of the Manuscript Department of the National Library of Russia; assistant professor, Department of Iranian Philology of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg State University. Research interests: classical Persian literature, Zoroastrian literature in the Persian language, Islamic manuscripts collections, codicology of Islamic manuscripts.
Notes to Contributors
Manuscripts must be written in English.
Manuscripts must be clearly typewritten with numbered pages. The title should be as brief and informative as possible. The institute at which the work has been done should be indicated at the head of each paper. Authors are requested to include their e-mail address if one is available.
Submissions
Manuscripts should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Efim A. Rezvan, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Universitetskaya nab., 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia, e-mail: efim.rezvan@mail.ru. |
