Education

1986–1989 – Correspondence Postgraduate Studies, Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy RAS.

1975–1981 – Department of Arabic, College of Afro-Asian Studies affiliated to the Moscow State University.

Degrees

1998 – D.Sc. in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy RAS. Thesis under the title  ‘Sense Generating Procedures in Classical Islamic Philosophy’, later enlarged and reworked into a volume published in 2001 under the title ‘Logic of Sense. Theory and its application to the study of classical Arab culture’.

1989 – Ph.D. in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy RAS. Thesis under the title ‘The Philosophical Views of Ibn ‘Arabī’ is a systematic exposition of Ibn ‘Arabī’s philosophical doctrine. Published in 1993 as a book, with the first full Russian translation of Fuṣūṣ al‑Ḥikam.

 Titles

Academician-Secretary of the Department of Social Sciences of RAS, 2017

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2016

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2006

Fellowship

NIAS (Netherland Institute for Advanced Studies), 2-month fellowship programme, March-April 1997, Wassenaar, the Netherlands

Current position

Director of the Institute, Institute of Philosophy under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Head, Department of Philosophy of Islamic World, Institute of Philosophy under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Courses in Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Classical Arab philosophy

Islamic ethics

Sufism and Islamic culture

Arab philosophy: texts and interpretation

Arabic language and Islamic doctrine

Publications

12 books and a number of articles in Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, Persian, and Russian. Contributed to the 'New Philosophical Encyclopaedia', 'Dictionary of Ethics' and 'World Around Us' encyclopaedia (in Russian)