Efim A. REZVAN
Ph.D., Dr.Sc., Professor.
Editor-in-chief, International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research “Manuscripta Orientalia”; Director, International Center for Islamic Studies; trainer/expert of the UNESCO/ICOM project Running a Museum: 21st Century.
Basic areas of research: Islamic studies; Qur’anic studies; history and ethnography of the peoples of the Near and Middle East; history and ethnography of the peoples of Central Asia; visual anthropology; ethnic museology; historiography, Source studies and Methodology of Ethnography diversity of Islamic world.
Basic publications:
- Sufun rusiya fi l-Khaleej al-‘Arabi. 1899–1903. Mavad min arshif al-dawla al-markazi li-l-ustul al-bahri al-harbi. Dar at-Takaddum, Musku, 1990 [Russian Ships in Persian Gulf. 1899–1903. Materials of the State Central Archive of the Russian Navy. M.: Progress, 1990] (in Arabic)];
- The Qur’an. Translated by D.N. Boguslavsky (together with A.N. Weirauch). Saint-Petersburg: Petersburg Oriental Studies, 1995;
- The Qur’an and Its Interpretations. Saint-Petersburg: Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2000;
- The Qur’an and Its World. Saint-Petersburg, Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2001;
- The Qur’an of ‘Uthman (Katta-Langar, Saint-Petersburg, Bukhara, Tashkent). Saint-Petersburg: Petersburg Oriental Studies, 2004 (a Russian-English edition);
- Rezvan E. Russian Ships in the Gulf, 1899–1903. London: Ithaca Press, 1999;
- Hajj qabla mi’a sana. Rihla sirriya li-l-dabit rusi ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Davletshin ili-l-Makka al-Mukarrama, 1898. Bairut: Dar at-takrib baina mazahib islamiya. 1993 (Hajj a Hundred Years Ago. The Secret Mission of Captain ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Davletshin to the Sacred Mekka. 1898. Beirut, 1898) (In Arabic)];
- Al-hisan al-‘arabi fi rusiya. Dubai: Markaz Juma’’al-Madjid li-t-turath va-thaqafa, 2005 (Arab Horse in Russia. Dubai, 2005) (in Arabic)];
- Al-Qur’an al-karim fi Rusiya. Dubai: Markaz Juma’ al-Madjid li-l-turath va-thaqafa, 2005 (The Qur’an in Russia) (In Arabic)];
- The Qur’an and its world. Saint-Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2012 (Manuscripta Orientalia Electronic book series; Vol. 1);
- Oriental Manuscripts of Karl Fabergé. Vol. 1. St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2012. (Manuscripta Orientalia Electronic book series; Vol. 2);
- The Qur’an and Muslim Manuscript Tradition. Selected articles (together with M. Rezvan). St. Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2013 (Manuscripta Orientalia Electronic book series; Vol. 3);
- An Introduction to Qur’anic Studies. Kazan: Kazan University Press, 2014;
- Turkestan. Saint-Petersburg – Almaty: KMBH (My World of Islam Series; Vol. 1);
- Man in the Qur’an and Pre-Islamic Poetry. Monograph. SPb.: President’s Library (co-authored with A.Y. Kudryavtseva).
