{"id":8503,"date":"2018-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/copy.islamfond.ru\/index.php\/2018\/03\/31\/islamic-and-pre-islamic-world\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:41:44","slug":"islamic-and-pre-islamic-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/2018\/03\/31\/islamic-and-pre-islamic-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic and pre-Islamic world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cIslamic and pre-Islamic world: history and politics\u201d is a series of academic books launched in 2017. It currently contains fourteen very precious works of Russian academics \u2014 a monograph of Dmitriy Mishin \u201cThe history of the state of Lakhmids\u201d, works of Mariya Vidyasova \u201cTunisia. The route to the 21st century\u201d, <\/span>\u201cLibya. Where is the country of 140 tribes going?\u201d, \u201cAlgeria at a crossing of three roads\u201d and \u201cEgypt: From Nasser to our time\u201d, a collective monograph \u201cSpaces and meanings. Memorable chapters of the Arab world history\u201d, \u201cBayt Al-Hikma. The history of academy of sciences in the East\u201d by S.A.Siyahpush, collection of articles \u201cIran in the context of new geopolitical realities (for the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution)\u201d, the book of Amir Sadeghi Neshat \u201cThe constitutional system of the Islamic Republic of Iran\u201d, the book of Seyed Ali Mujani \u201cThe Chronicles of Najd. The rule of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the establishment of the Saud dynasty in Najd and Hijaz according to the Ottoman archive documents\u201d, \u201cTa&#8217;rikh Miskindzha: a Dagestani Historical Writing\u201d by A.R. Shikhsaidov, Z.Sh. Zakariayev, A.R. Navruzov and &#8220;The Bulgarian Chronicles, or Approaching [&#8216;Ali] Gari&#8221; by Muhammad-&#8216;Ali Chukuri and &#8216;Arifullah Basaravi, the monograph \u201cHistorical sketches of the Anglo-Iranian war of 1856-1857\u201d by B.V. Norik and the work \u201cA Road to Kerbela\u201d by Golamhossein Zargarinejad.<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;The history of the state of the Lakhmids&#8221; represents an attempt to reconstruct the political history of the Lakhmid state, which existed from the second half of the 3rd century until the early 7th century in the south-west of the contemporary Iran. The book was published in 2017 with the support of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cTunisia. The route to the 21st century\u201d is a seminal work describing the history of this country from the beginning of the 20th century to date. The book was published in 2018 in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Science and the Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Two more books are expected to be published in this series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cBayt Al-Hikma. The history of academy of sciences in the East\u201d\u00a0is dedicated to the history of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad (Bayt Al-Hikma) and a number of similar institutions existing in the Muslim East that could be considered as prototypes of contemporary academies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cLibya. Where is the country of 140 tribes going?\u201d by M.F. Vidyasova presents a concise review of the history of the ancient and contemporary Libya, its conquest by the Ottoman Empire and later by Italy. It covers different stages of the country\u2019s existence as an independent state. The main focus is placed on the civil war, which broke out in 2011, and the role of the Western European countries in this never-ending conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cSpaces and meanings. Memorable chapters of the Arab world history\u201d\u00a0<\/span>is a collective monograph\u00a0edited by V.A. Kuznetsov, D.E. Mishin, V.V. Orlov.\u00a0This monograph contains a number of significant yet underexamined incidents of the centuries-long history of the Arab East.\u00a0The book was published based on the results of the Ibn Sina publishing grant contest (project No: 2018.01.10).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cIran in the context of new geopolitical realities (for the 40th anniversary of the Islamic revolution)\u201d is the collection of articles, which was compiled and edited by Ye. V. Dumayeva, candidate of historical sciences, and was published with the support of the Ibn Sina Foundation in cooperation with the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies. The focus is placed on the ideological justification of a new Islamic state model based on the \u201cvelayet-e fakih\u201d principle and its practical implementation. The work presents an analysis of the results of social, political, economic and cultural development of Iran, its major concepts of foreign policy and the evolution of the Russian-Iranian relationships. The work also suggests possible scenarios for the development of the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe constitutional system of the Islamic Republic of Iran\u201d is the\u00a0book of the famous Iranian political expert Amir Sadeghi Neshat. It contains a theoretical description of the political order of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The author presents a concise characteristics of the foundational principles of the new model of an Islamic state based on the \u201cvelayat-e fakih\u201d principle and demonstrates that it emphasizes its unique character and difference from all other contemporary political systems.<\/p>\n<p>The book\u00a0\u201cAlgeria at a crossing of three roads\u201d\u00a0provides a concise overview of the history of the ancient and medieval Algeria, its conquest by the Ottoman Empire and later by France. It describes different stages of the country\u2019s evolution as an independent state, with a focus on the civil war of 1992-1999 and the causes of the Algerian leaders\u2019 negative attitude towards the \u201cArab Spring\u201d. The work is meant for those interested in political sciences, history and especially oriental studies, as well as general readers willing to know more about the events happening in the North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The book \u201cThe Chronicles of Najd. The rule of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and the establishment of the Saud dynasty in Najd and Hijaz according to the Ottoman archive documents\u201d\u00a0examines\u00a0the history of the emergence and functioning of the state of Muhammad ibn Saud in Najd in the late 18th-early 19th centuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">The book \u201cEgypt: From Nasser to our time\u201d provides a brief overview of the history of Egypt in the 2nd half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. The emphasis is placed on the issue of totalitarianism (relations between the authorities and the opposition) and the movement of \u201cpolitical Islam\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cTa&#8217;rikh Miskindzha: a Dagestani Historical Writing\u201d is a valuable historical source and an important written cultural artefact of the peoples of Dagestan. The book contains the Russian translation of Ta&#8217;rikh Miskindja accompanied by historical and linguistic commentaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Historiographical work\u00a0<\/span>&#8220;The Bulgarian Chronicles&#8221;\u00a0written in the Ural-Volga version of the Turkic language\u00a0allows the readers to see the world through the eyes of the Russian imam who lived more than a century ago and to witness the colourful diversity of the Russian Muslim community of the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The monograph\u00a0\u201cHistorical sketches of the Anglo-Iranian war of 1856-1857\u201d\u00a0is intended to restore the balance and demonstrate what was happening in the Persian Gulf region, far from the place of the unfolding political events that led to this war.<\/p>\n<p>The work \u201cA Road to Kerbela\u201d is a research work on the events of Kerbela and the murder of Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s grandson Imam Husain and his companions. The Iranian author Golamhossein Zargarinejad investigates the reasons and the history of this uprising based on a huge variety of documental, religious, literature and other sources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIslamic and pre-Islamic world: history and politics\u201d is a series of academic books launched in 2017. It currently contains fourteen very precious works of Russian academics \u2014 a monograph of Dmitriy Mishin \u201cThe history of the state of Lakhmids\u201d, works of Mariya Vidyasova \u201cTunisia. The route to the 21st century\u201d, \u201cLibya. 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