Abstract
The authors of this article focus on issues related to history, factors, and trends in the development of Arab-Islamic studies in the Russian Empire. The article presents an overview and systematization of the main events, names, as well as some features of the formation of educational traditions of teaching Arab-Islamic languages, as well as key focus areas and results of historical and cultural studies of Muslim peoples of the Near and Middle East and the Russian Muslim East at Kazan and St. Petersburg Universities in the first half of the 19th century. Complex academic and university courses and subjects – Arab studies, Iranian studies and Turkology – in the Russian Empire in the first half of the 19th century became important components of the disciplinary and institutional development of modern Oriental studies and are presented as a certain historical, scientific, social and cultural phenomenon of humanitarian research of personas and societies of the Islamic East. These Orientalist fields of research contributed to the knowledge of the national history of Russian state and society, particularly the territories, peoples and cultures of the Empire that were organically connected with the Islamic world.
Highlights
In the second half of the 18th – early 20th centuries, Russia saw the development of the system of Oriental studies and the formation of scientific, educational and ideological principles of Arab studies, teaching of Islamic languages and complex Arab-Islamic studies of academics and practitioners
This significant milestone was primarily associated with an important component of Russian academic and university orientalism – the systematic and comprehensive teaching and research of the Arabic, Persian and Turkic languages, which played an exceptional role in the study of written and material monuments, as well as with a holistic vision of the historical, geographical and cultural space that the Arab-Islamic civilization occupied
Oriental studies and orientalism (Arab-Islamic courses and subjects, academic and artistic research) as new humanitarian fields of the Russian university structure were becoming organic in the implementation of the European ideals of a classical university, in the "rise and expansion of science", "increment in scholarly knowledge", in the development of the intellectual capabilities and personal qualities of students, etc
Summary
In the second half of the 18th – early 20th centuries, Russia saw the development of the system of Oriental studies and the formation of scientific, educational and ideological principles of Arab studies, teaching of Islamic languages and complex Arab-Islamic studies of academics and practitioners. The turn of the 18th – 19th centuries marks the era of the formation of socio-cultural and academic traditions of Arab-Islamic Studies in Russia. This significant milestone was primarily associated with an important component of Russian academic and university orientalism – the systematic and comprehensive teaching and research of the Arabic, Persian and Turkic languages, which played an exceptional role in the study of written and material monuments, as well as with a holistic vision of the historical, geographical and cultural space that the Arab-Islamic civilization occupied
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