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The Origins of Iranian Studies in Russia (Nineteenth to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Alexey Khismatulin
Alexey Khismatulin*
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Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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Abstract

This paper deals with the origins of Iranian studies in the principal centers of Oriental studies in Russia, located in Kazan, St. Petersburg and Moscow from the nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. It concerns the international political situation and major social changes which created a demand in the Russian intellectual market for both academic and practical experts on the entire Muslim world. The paper also describes how, thanks to the efforts of German scholars who were invited to these centers, the different fields of modern Iranian studies, including the academic traditions, achievements and key publications were initially formed and then were developed by their Russian colleagues.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 5: Russian Orientalism to Soviet Iranology: The Persian-speaking World and its History through Russian Eyes , September 2015 , pp. 663 - 673
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Copyright © The International Society for Iranian Studies 2015

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