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Мамлюкская военная элита в свите султана Каитбая (по материалам записок Абу-л-Бака' ибн ал-Джи'ана о событиях 1477–1478 годов)
Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История. 2022. Т. 57. № 2. С. 33–41.
In the chronicle “al-Qawl al-Mustaẓraf fī Safar Mawlānā al-Malik al-Ashraf” Abū al-Baqāʾ Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn al-Jīʿān (1443–1497) mentioned seven Mamluk amirs, who escorted the sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbay in his tour to Syria in 1477–1478. The purpose of the sultan’s journey was to inspect the fortifications in the northern regions of al-Shām. Only few emirs and a small group of Mamluks (about twenty-five warriors) travelled with the sultan. The article investigates the background of these emirs on the base of several Arabic sources of the Mamluk period.
Four of these seven emirs were married to women from the sultan’s household. The paper highlights the importance of the in-law relations, which formed a powerful facilitator of an emir’s career advancement.
Most of al-Ashraf Qaitbay’s escort were those emirs whose service was somehow connected with the financial sector, which were engaged in replenishing the Sultan’s treasury. These were the second davadar Tanibak Qara, muhtasib Yashbak al-Jamali, wali Yashbak min Haydar, the governor of Jidda Shahin al-Jamali. The trend associated with the promotion of the emirs-administrators who headed financial departments into the political elite formed during the reign of Qaitbay and was a new phenomenon in the political life of the Sultanate. The "report" on the trip of the Sultan, compiled by Abū al-Baqāʾ Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyá Ibn al-Jīʿān, showed how important for the Sultan were those emirs who had experience in the financial sphere, who could assess not only the condition of the fortifications, but how much money will be needed for their effective protection, and most importantly – to ensure the receipt of these funds in the treasury.
ИДВ РАН, 2026.
This paper addresses the issue perceiving the national Vietnamese costume as a tool of cultural representation in the context of official state events held in Vietnam and abroad. The study focuses on specific cases of protocol visits, meetings, forums, and beauty contests, where the ao dai and other types and elements of national clothing are ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Dadykina M., Известия Российской академии образования 2026 Т. 2 № 74 С. 50–65
In modern economic law, the concept of "business entity" refers to an individual or legal entity (or association) en- gaged in economic activity for profit. Since the concept of a legal entity in Russia only fully developed in the late 18th century, the use of this term in the context of the Russian economy of ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Kanaev A. A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2026 № 3(74) С. 159–168
The current article is dedicated to the specifics of how the image of the “East” correlated with Russian national identity in the political languages of Russian nationalists in the 1990s. The focus is on situations in which certain positive features of the imaginary “East,” as opposed to the “West,” were associated with the Russian nation. ...
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Seleznev M., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 3 No. 86 P. 589–592
The article reconstructs the 'biography' of an alleged (in fact, non-existent) fragment of
4QDeutq said to contain a non-Masoretic reading of Deut 32 : 8. It traces how erroneous
references to the fragment emerged during the preliminary publication of the Scrolls in the
1950s, the scholarly attention this fragment received, its eventual disappearance from Qumran
studies after the official ...
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Абзалов Л. Ф., Гатин М., Мустакимов И. А. et al., Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья 2026 № 22 С. 395–406
The article is devoted to the analysis of the office of mushrif in the states of traditional Orient. The sources and researches characterize this institution in different ways. One authors consider mushrif as a representative of a treasure office, others states that he was a kind of ‘undercover agent” who fulfilled ruler’s secret orders in ...
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Popov A., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 689–699
The article examines the export of Soviet oil to the CMEA countries in 1965–1985, relying on statistical data from declassified collections of Foreign Trade of CMEA Member Countries, which are being made available to scholars for the first time. The author argues that economic motives played a significant role in the expansion of Soviet oil ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143
The issue delivers an analysis of schellingian motives in the later works by A.F. Losev. The author brings information about Losev’s retrospective evaluation of Schelling’s influence on the formation of his own philosophical approach, it’s specific character and it’s grade. The author shows that all the main investigation projects of the later Losev which have ...
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Khlevniuk O. V., Journal of Slavic Military Studies 2026 Vol. 39 No. 3 P. 447–466
The Gulag as a system of terror and forced labor was the
cornerstone of Soviet mobilization efforts in the 1930s.
Paradoxically, during the war with Nazi Germany, the
Gulag’s capacities and economic significance did not grow,
but in fact declined, contrary to what one would expect. The
massive use of prisoners as a source for replenishing the
army and the huge ...
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Selin A. A., Яблокова И. В., Вспомогательные исторические дисциплины 2026 Т. 45 № 3 С. 609–619
This article examines the possibility of reconstructing the archives of the Novgorod Prikaznaya Izba (office) from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the materials of which were partially destroyed and partially scattered across various archival repositories. Some of these materials have been introduced into scholarly circulation, while others remain unidentified. There is a debate ...
Added: October 5, 2026
Popov A., Pivovarov N. Y., Russian Review 2026 Vol. 85 No. 4 P. 461–477
This article challenges the conventional narrative that the transferable ruble was conceived as a Soviet means of challenging Western financial hegemony. Drawing on previously unpublished archival mate rial from Russian state archives, it argues that the currency emerged primarily from a pragmatic need to settle accumulated debts within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). ...
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This collection presents papers from the 17th All-Russian Scientific Conference (2026), attended by staff and students from Russian higher education institutions, school teachers, and professionals from libraries and archives engaged in research on national history and historiography. ...
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Вебер М., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 318–353
In the concluding part of the Second Anti-Critique (1910), Max Weber summarizes the substantive
findings of his own contributions to the debate with the historian Felix Rachfahl. In doing so, he uses the response to his relentless critic as an opportunity to articulate once again, in an explicit manner and for both his own benefit and that of the ...
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Kamenskii A. B., Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2026.
This volume has been prepared to mark the anniversary of the distinguished Ural scholar Dmitry Alekseyevich Redin. It presents research and published source texts contributed by Dmitry Alekseyevich’s colleagues, friends, and students. The diverse range of studies—covering various aspects of Russian social history from the late 16th through the 18th century, as well as issues ...
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Kamenskii A. B., Quaestio Rossica 2026 Т. 14 № 3 С. 939–959
This article examines one of the significant figures in the system of governance of Russia during the reign of Catherine II: Prince Alexander Alekseevich Vyazemsky, Prosecutor General of the Senate, who held this post for approximately thirty years. During this period, the scope of his activities continually expanded to encompass the administration of finances; various construction ...
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Grishina D., Исаева В. М., Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2026 Vol. 2 No. 3 P. 47–64
The second half of the nineteenth century became a time of many dramatic events on the Korean peninsula. With opening the country to trade and diplomacy with Westernized (Japan) or Western (USA, France, Great Britain) countries led to a division within Korean society, since the 1880s Chosŏn (Korea) has entered the age of political and ...
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Крестьянников Е. А., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 174–201
This article continues previously published research (Krest’yannikov, E. A. (2025) “‘Kubki vlasti’ Petra Vologodskogo: kar’ernye stupeni yurista v usloviyakh revolyutsii i Grazhdanskoi voiny (1917–1919). Chast’ I” [“Petr Vologodskii ‘Cups of Power’: Career Steps of a Lawyer in the Time of Revolutions and Civil War (1917–1919). Part I”], Territoriya: zhurnal istoricheskikh issledovanii, 2, pp. 164–200) and ...
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Boyarchenkov V., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 1 С. 61–94
В статье рассматривается место, которое занимали в структуре и практиках московского Общества истории и древностей российских (ОИДР) исследователи из других городов. Установлено, что руководство Общества, на протяжении многих десятилетий декларируя в уставе заинтересованность в привлечении знатоков старины со всей России, в то же время крайне неохотно предоставляло им полноправный статус действительных членов. Опора на патронажные ...
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Кириллов В. М., В кн.: Херсонесский сборник. Выпуск XXVIВып. XXVI.: Севастополь: Государственный историко-археологический музей-заповедник Херсонес Таврический, 2025. С. 34–43.
This paper discusses a variant of perception the myth of Iphigenia, the Taurian Artemis and Orestes in urban religious cults of the Hellenistic and Roman time. There was a xoanon of goddess in Athens. Its origin went back to the myth. In 480 BC, Persians took the xoanon away from Athens. Circa 300 BC Seleucus ...
Added: July 2, 2026
Боков Т. А., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2026 № 1 С. 207–217
This article analyzes demographic change within the Syrian Christian community during the armed conflict. The study draws on field data collected by the author in 2019–2024, including interviews with Syrian Christians and observations made while travelling across the country, alongside Vatican statistics on Eastern Catholic communities and media reports. The findings show that areas of ...
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Alexandrov B., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2025 Т. 29 № 1 С. 24–50
The article offers a Russian translation and commentary of Emar 18. This text from the Emar archives contains a decision by the king of Carchemish of the 13th century B.C. Ini-Teššub concerning the status of an Emarite called Kitta and his family. Kitta is recognized as a slave of Ini-Teššub’s brother, the prince Ḫešmi-Teššub, while the children of ...
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Zelenev E., Iliushina M., Iran and the Caucasus 2025 Vol. 4-5 No. 29 P. 435–450
Sultan al-Ashraf Qanisawh al-Ghawri cannot be classified as an outstanding Mamluk ruler, but rather the opposite: his accession to power was a forced measure when all the more worthy claimants to the throne were unable to compete for power, so that the principle of negative selection came into play. The reign of al-Ashraf Qanisawh al-Ghawri ...
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Гаман-Голутвина О.В., Соловьева Д. Д., Полис. Политические исследования 2021 № 6 С. 60–72
The article analyzes the French experience of institutionalization of the political elite’s recruitment process. Although there are various channels for the recruitment of the French political elite, the education system is central in creating a framework, norms and procedures to train civil servants who make up the core of the political elite. The main issue ...
Added: December 8, 2025
Боков Т. А., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2025 № 5 С. 168–178
This article examines the demographic dynamics of the Syrian Christian community in 1943‑2000, which is important for clarifying our understanding of the socio-political processes in the country at that period. It is noted that estimates of the Christian population of Syria during the 2000s vary significantly, ranging from 3% to 12% of the total population. A number of ...
Added: October 21, 2025
Royce D. P., Russia in Global Affairs 2025 Vol. 23 No. 3 P. 197–220
This article argues that Russia’s interests in Syria are limited to (1) strengthening Iran and (2) the maintenance of access to the Mediterranean and of air and naval bases on its shore. At this point, the maximal satisfaction of those interests at minimal cost would be provided by ‘Plan A’: drawing Turkiye towards Russia and ...
Added: October 16, 2025