In the Manuscript Department -- From wanderings in the East -- Arab writers and the Russian Arabist -- In the Asiatic Museum -- In the University Library -- "The game comes running to the hunter" -- Shades of our predecessors -- Finale. "Requiem aeternam" (1943) -- Supplement. "…
I.Y. Kratchkovsky (Ignatii Iul'ianovich Krachkovskii) was an iconic scholar, and Among Arabic Manuscripts, Memories of Libraries and Men gives us a good indication of what made him so outstanding. Hugely influential in its time, especially in Eastern Europe, it inspired several …
I.Y. Kratchkovsky (Ignatii Iul'ianovich Krachkovskii) was an iconic scholar. Among Arabic Manuscripts, Memories of Libraries and Men was a hugely influential book in its time, especially in Eastern Europe. It inspired several now-noted Arabists to start their studies in this fie…
Maḥmūd b. Muḥammad al-Almālī al-Shirwānī al-Dāghistānī (c. 1810–77) was a shaykh of the Naqshbandiyya-Khālidiyya Ṣūfī brotherhood and the eponym of its Maḥmūdiyya branch in Daghestan. The Naqshbandiyya was founded in Bukhara by Bahāʾ al-Dīn (d. 786/1384) and is widespread. Its o…
Kunta-Ḥājjī al-Iliskhānī (Kishiev) (c.1800–67) was a Chechen Ṣūfī master, the eponymous founder of the Kunta-Ḥājjī branch of the Qādiriyya brotherhood active in Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Daghestan; this branch is well-known for its dhikr dance practice (the Qādiriyya is a widesp…
Ḥamzat-Bek (Ḥamza Bīk) b. ʿAlī Iskandar-Bek al-Hūtsādī al-Awārī al-Dāghistānī (1789–1834) was, between 1832 and 1834, the political and military leader (imām) of the jihād movement that fought for the implementation of Islamic law in Daghestan, against the Daghestani Muslim comm…
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad al-Thughūrī (al-Ṣughūrī) (b. 1207/1792–3, d. 1299/1882) was a shaykh of the jihād -oriented branch of the Naqshbandiyya-Khālidiyya Ṣūfī brotherhood in Daghestan. The widespread Naqshbandī order was founded in Bukhara by Bahāʾ al-Dīn (d. 786/1384); its ort…
Daghestan (Dāghistān) is a republic of the Russian Federation. Located in the northeastern Caucasus, it has an area of 50,300 square kilometres and borders Kalmykia and the Stavropol region in the north, Chechnya and Georgia in the west, Azerbaijan in the south, and the Caspian …