{"id":9176,"date":"2016-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/copy.islamfond.ru\/index.php\/2016\/04\/19\/institute-of-philosophy-of-russian-academy-of-sciences-hosted-presentation-of-discourse-of-arab-philosophy-by-e-a-frolova\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T07:45:14","slug":"institute-of-philosophy-of-russian-academy-of-sciences-hosted-presentation-of-discourse-of-arab-philosophy-by-e-a-frolova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/2016\/04\/19\/institute-of-philosophy-of-russian-academy-of-sciences-hosted-presentation-of-discourse-of-arab-philosophy-by-e-a-frolova\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute of Philosophy of Russian Academy of Sciences hosted presentation of \u201cDiscourse of Arab Philosophy\u201d by E. A. Frolova"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 14th<\/sup> April 2016 the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the support of the Islamic Culture Research Foundation hosted the presentation of the \u201cDiscourse of Arab Philosophy\u201d, a book written by a famous Russian philosophic historian, Evgeniya Antonovna Frolova. <\/span><\/p>\n

Both recognized and young researchers attended the roundtable discussion. Among them there were experts not only in Islamic world\u2019s philosophy (A. V. Smirnov, I. R. Nasyrov, R. V. Pskhu, Yu. E. Fedorova, A. A. Lukashev), but also experts in Jewish (K. Yu. Burmistrov), Western (Yu. V. Sineokaya) and Indian (M. T. Stepanyants) philosophy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The event was held as a one-day academic conference under the name \u201cArab Muslim philosophy: topical research\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

The opening speech was made by A. V. Smirnov, Director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He described the fruitful academic activity of Evgeniya Antonovna, mentioned her merits and some personality traits that, to some extent, helped her write the book. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0In the photo: A. V. Smirnov (on the right)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

After that, the participants proceeded to discussing the \u201cDiscourse of Arab Philosophy\u201d and delivering reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

M. T. Stepanyants presented her review of E. A. Frolova\u2019s book. She noted its extraordinary value, saying that this work covered contemporary research in the field of Arab philosophy, whereas Post-Soviet and Orientalist studies placed greater focus on medieval authors. She also commended the well-chosen topic and unusual presentation. She mentioned that the work could have contained more names of contemporary Arab philosophers, stating their views on certain issues. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0In the photo: M. T. Stepanyants (on the right)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

One of the main questions raised at the conference was related to the genre of the \u201cDiscourse of Arab Philosophy\u201d. This work cannot be defined as encyclopaedic dictionary or an article due to its unusual structure and style. There is no author in the book, as E.A. Frolova herself put it. This is no coincidence: her idea was to make the Arab thinkers speak from the pages of this work. Finally, A. V. Smirnov suggested calling this book\u2019s genre \u201ca hypertext fractal\u201d, that is a gate to the classic Islamic heritage, which can be compared to an ocean. <\/span><\/p>\n

After the reviews and the book\u2019s genre were discussed, Mr Saadat, Deputy Head of the Cultural Mission of Iran in Moscow, and A. A. Guseynov, academic adviser of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expressed their gratitude to E. A. Frolova.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0In the left photo:\u00a0Mr Saadat (on the right); In the right photo: A.A. Guseynov (on the right)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Even though the book was published quite recently, it has already proved useful. Yu. V. Sineokaya, head of the Department of History of Western Philosophy, shared her own experience as a philosophy teacher. Once her Muslim students expressed their dissatisfaction with the fact that she didn\u2019t pay attention to the Eastern philosophy, focusing only on the Western philosophy instead.\u00a0Yulia Vadimovna decided to comply with their request and promised to devote several lectures to this topic. Therefore, she had to look into this issue. Her colleagues recommended the books of E. A. Frolova to her. After she studied the \u201cArab Philosophy: Past and Present\u201d and \u201cDiscourse of Arab Philosophy\u201d, E. A. Frolova\u2019s books became her desk companions. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0In the photo: Yu. V. Sineokaya (on the right)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

After that Hamid Hadawi, President of the Islamic Culture Research Foundation, delivered a speech. He outlined the success that has been achieved in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy, and noted that to a large extent it was due to A.V.Smirnov and E. A. Frolova\u2019s efforts. Over the last 8 years more than 10 books were published and over 10 conferences were conducted cooperatively. Mr Hadawi also thanked E. A. Frolova for her work and expressed his hope for seeing her new books in the nearest future. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0In the photo: Hamid Hadawi (on the right)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Editor in chief of the \u201cSadra\u201d publishing house, A. B. Gromov, noted that the \u201cDiscourse of Arab Philosophy\u201d book was duly appreciated at the latest book exhibitions, and that the whole \u201cPhilosophic thought of Islamic world\u201d series, which includes this book, is in great demand among readers. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0In the photo: A.B. Gromov (on the left)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The conference attendees also delivered a few scientific reports devoted to similarity between Islamic and Jewish thought (K. Yu. Burmistrov), Ibn Haldun\u2019s (I. R. Nasyrov) and Nifari\u2019s (R. V. Pskhu) teachings, Europeans\u2019 view on Muslims and its origins (E. Yu. Fedorova). A. A. Lukashev raised a sensitive issued of jihad and told about the Sufi origins of its understanding. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Taking into account the fact that the issues of Arab and Islamic world are a major focus of interest, positive ideas of Arab Muslim philosophers can be used in order to solve them and prevent other problems in the society.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 14th April 2016 the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the support of the Islamic Culture Research Foundation hosted the presentation of the \u201cDiscourse of Arab Philosophy\u201d, a book written by a famous Russian philosophic historian, Evgeniya Antonovna Frolova. Both recognized and young researchers attended the roundtable discussion. Among […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-activities"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22693,"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9176\/revisions\/22693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibnsina.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}