Vladimir Alexeyevich Ivanov

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Vladimir Alexeyevich Ivanov (born 3 October 1886 in Saint Petersburg ; died 1. June 1970 in Tehran , Russian Владимир Алексеевич Иванов ; scientific. Transliteration Vladimir Alekseevic Ivanov ), mostly in the case Vladimir Ivanov , was a Russian Orientalist , who as Ismailism - Researcher has pioneered work, particularly on the Nizarites (Nizari Ismailis).

life and work

Vladimir Ivanov was born in St. Petersburg on October 3, 1886 . He studied from 1907 to 1911 at the Faculty of Oriental Languages ​​at the University of St. Petersburg . He toured Persia and Central Asia . He later worked in British service in India. He worked on cataloging the library collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal ("Asian Society of Bengal") in Calcutta , India during the 1920s .

In 1931 he moved to Bombay . He was a founding member of the Ismaili Society in Bombay under the patronage of Sultan Muhammed Shah Aga Khan III and began a systematic study of Ismaili literature. One of the fruits of this development work is, for example, his guide to Ismaili literature ( Guide to Ismaili Literature , London 1933, Royal Asiatic Society , Prize Publication Fund 13).

The Ismaili Society (Ismaili Society) became the prototype of the London Ismaili Institute .

The Ismaili historian Farhad Daftary assigns him a key role in establishing important Ismaili institutions:

“The Islamic Research Association was founded in 1933, and in 1946 it was transformed into the Ismaili Society of Bombay under the auspices of Sultan Muhammad Shah , Aga Khan III (1877–1957), the 48th Imam of the Nizarites . The Russian orientalist Vladimir Ivanov (1886–1970) played a key role in founding these two institutions. "

Ivanov was editor of the book series Ismaili Society Series in which - as already before in the Islamic Research Association Series - many of his works and translations published.

He died in Tehran .

His correspondence with Henry Corbin (1903–1978) between 1947 and 1966 was edited by Sabine Schmidtke .

Publications (selection)

  • Fifty Years in the East: The Memoirs of Wladimir Ivanow , Farhad Daftary, IB Tauris, London (2015) ( partial online view ; table of contents ; book trade link )
  • The Importance of Studying Ismailism
  • Concise descriptive catalog of the Persian manuscripts in the Curzon collection. Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) Library. Printed at the Baptist mission press, Pub. by the Asiatic society of Bengal, (1926).
  • Notes on the "Ummu'l-kitab" des Ismaéliens de l'Asie centrale. Paris: Librairie orientaliste Paul Geuthner 1933
  • Ismaili literature: a bibliographical survey ; second amplified edition of "A guide to Ismail literature", London, 1933, Tehran University Press, (1963)
  • Catalog of the Arabic manuscripts in the collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal , Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) Library, Wladimir Ivanow, revised by M. Hidayat Hosain. Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal , (1939), 689 pages, 2 vols.
  • The Gabri Dialect Spoken by the Zoroastrians of Persia (1940)
  • Ismaili tradition concerning the rise of the Fatimids (1942). Volume 10 of the Islamic Research Association Series , Oxford Univ. Pr. In comm.
  • Ibn-al-Qaddah: (The Alleged Founder of Ismailism) (1946). The Ismaili Foundation, 2nd. edition, (1957)
  • On the Recognition of the Imam: Or Fasl Dar Bayan-i Shinakht-i Imam (1947)
  • Nāṣir-i Khusraw and Ismailism (1948).
  • Studies in early Persian Ismailism . EJ Brill, (1948)
  • Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī (translation)
  • Catalog of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1951), with M. Hidayat Hosain, M. Mahfuz-ul-Haq, M. Ishaque.
  • Studies in early Persian Ismailism , 2nd ed. (1955)
  • Problems in Nasir-i Khusraw's Biography (1956)

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ^ A forerunner of the Institute of Ismaili Studies ( London ).
  2. ↑ Farhad Daftary : Brief History of the Ismailis . 2003, p. 25
  3. ↑ cf. THE ISMAILI SOCIETY'S SERIES

literature

  • Sabine Schmidtke (ed.): Correspondance Corbin-Ivanow: lettres échangée entre Henry Corbin et Vladimir Ivanow de 1947 à 1966. Paris, 1999.
  • Farhad Daftary (Ed.): Historical Dictionary of the Ismailis (Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures) 2011 ( partial online view )

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personal data
SURNAME Ivanov, Vladimir Alexeyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ivanov, Vladimir Alekseevich; Ivanow, W .; Ivanov, Vladimir; Ivanov, Vladimir; Ivanov, Vladimir Alexeyevich; Ivanov, Vladimir Alekseevič; Ivanov, W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian orientalist, Ismailism researcher
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1970
Place of death Tehran