On May 23, 2011, Patriarch of Russian Arabic Studies Robert Grigoryevich Landa turned 80 years old. The luminaries of science need no introduction. Their achievements are well-known, and any dates are just an occasion to recall "the main biographical facts - books, the most important events-thoughts", in the apt expression of V. O. Klyuchevsky.

Robert Grigorievich, who has been working at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1957, headed the sector in 1985-1989, and in 1989-2005 - the Department of Comparative Theoretical Research, and now holds the position of chief researcher, is the author of twenty-four books and pamphlets and more than four hundred and seventy scientific papers totaling 670 a.l. All his works have attracted and still attract the interested attention of colleagues, as they are always not only scientifically, but also socially significant and focused on the most pressing problems of Oriental studies. Among them are such monographs as " The History of the Algerian Revolution. 1954-1962" (1983), "Managerial personnel and social evolution in Asian and African countries" (1985), " Islam in the History of Russia "(1995), " History of Algeria: XX Century "(1999), " History of Arab countries "(2005), " Political Islam: Preliminary results"(2005), " Sociology of Eastern Countries "(2006; 2008). Many of his works have been published in English, French, German and Arabic.

Robert Grigorievich is the founder of a whole scientific school for studying the Middle East. Under his supervision, two doctoral and twenty-six PhD theses were prepared; he edited such major collective scientific works as" The Social Image of the East "(1999) and" History of the East", vol.V (2006). Robert Grigorievich's lectures at the Moscow State Pedagogical University and the Institute of Oriental Studies (Eastern University) inspired many students to choose the Arab-Muslim world as the subject of their research interests. Robert Grigoryevich seems to know everything about this world. From the diverse influences of the Arab-Spanish civilization of Al-Andalus on the society and culture of North Africa in the Middle Ages and modern times to the evolution of the entire world of Islam, from the influence of the Golden Horde on Russia to the political preferences of Muslims in modern Russia, from the differences between the Arab West and the Arab East to the features of Islam in Southeast Asia and the role of Arabs in its history, to the ambivalent role of modernization, globalization, and westernization in world history...

Robert Grigorievich is a man of the highest culture, an intellectual in the true sense of the word, a knight of truth in the era of total dependence on the Internet. Communication with him is always a discovery of new things, a meeting with genuine wisdom and an unforgettable event in life.

We cordially congratulate Robert Grigoryevich on his birthday and wish him good health, long life and new creative success!

FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES, EDITORIAL BOARD AND EDITORIAL BOARD OF VOSTOK MAGAZINE

MAIN SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF R. G. LANDA*

Berbery: narod i kul'tura [Berbers: People and Culture]. Moscow, 2001, pp. 8-24.

Arabic Studies and Islamic Studies at the 36th Congress of Asian and North African Studies. 2001. N 1. pp. 136-140.

10th symposium on the study of morisks in Zaguan / / Vostok (Oriens). 2001. N 6. pp. 142-145.

Moors of Al-Andalus and Morisci of Spain //Russian Oriental Studies in Memory of M. S. Kapitsa, Moscow, 2001, pp. 178-200.

Paradoxes of Civilizational Mutations: Algerian Society at the Turn of the Century //Vostochny mir: opyty obshchestvennoy transformatsii [Eastern World: Experiences of Social Transformation], Moscow, 2001, pp. 205-245.

Political processes in the East. Sotsial'nye protsessy na Vostoke [Social processes in the East]. XX century. 1900-1945 Moscow, 2001, pp. 28-50.

Russia and Islam: Intercivilizational Contacts //Islam i sovremennye mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya [Islam and Modern International Relations]. MFA OF THE Russian Federation, 2001, pp. 127-146.

* Comp. by O. A. Tutushin. For the main scientific works of R. G. Landa for 1957-1992, see: Orient (Oriens). 1991. N 2. pp. 208-210; for 1990-2001, see: Vostok (Oriens). 2001. N 3. pp. 200-203.

Rossiya i mir islama: obshchee i osobennoe [Russia and the World of Islam: general and special]. Vestnik RUDN. Moscow, 2001. N2. pp. 116-134.

Socium obshchey sud'i [Society of Common Destiny]. Asia and Africa today. 2001. N 4. pp. 29-34.

Tunis rushes into the future / / Asia and Africa today. 2001. N 9. pp. 61-65; N 10. pp. 56-60.

A good example of European historians / / Vostok (Oriens). 2001. N 1. pp. 199-203.

Le caractère transitoire et frontalier de la culture morisque // Melanges Luce Lopez-Baralt. Zaghouan (Tunisie). 2001. V. 1. P. 379 - 391.

Les Morisques: ethnie ou groupe social? // La moriscologie: orientation et méthodologie. Zaghouan. 2001. P. 101 - 108.

Islamo-extremism and Russia in the context of East-West relations / / The Middle East and Modernity, Moscow, 2002. Vol. 14. pp. 186-201.

Islam i revolyutsiya [Islam and Revolution] / / The Middle East and Modernity, Moscow, 2002. Issue No. 16. pp. 123-132.

Preface: People and civilizations: apart or together. 7 - 19// Krylova N. L., Prozhogina S. V. Mixed marriages. Moscow, 2002.

Muslim Diaspora and Islamoextremism in the UK / / Moslems in the West, Moscow, 2002, pp. 14-30.

From contradictions of the epoch to disagreements in its understanding. 2002. N 5. pp. 89-102.

Rossiya i mir islama: obshchee i osobennoe [Russia and the World of Islam: general and special]. Kul'turnaya identichnost ' i globalizatsiya [Cultural Identity and Globalization], Moscow, 2002, pp. 214-230.

Elitiaalzhirskoy revolyutsii 1954-1962 gg. [Elite of the Algerian Revolution of 1954-1962] / / Arab countries of Western Asia and Northern Africa. Moscow, 2002. Issue 5. pp. 95-102.

Origins and trends of Islamic terrorism development //The Middle East and Modernity, Moscow, 2003. 17. pp. 23-34.

"Island of Africa" in Europe / / Asia and Africa today. 2003. N 9. pp. 62-66.

Politicheskiy islam i sotsial'naya revolyutsiya [Political Islam and social Revolution]. 2003. Issue 18, pp. 3-14.

Mediterranean and Middle East Studies Workshop// East (Oriens). 2003. N5. pp. 172-176.

United by History (russkiye i tyurko-yazychnyj mir: ot veka k veku) [Russian and Turkic - language world: from century to Century]. Tatarskiy mir, Moscow, 2003, No. 4(14), pp. 77-89.

Les Morisques et le développement socio-cul-turel de la Méditerranée // Morisques, Méditerranée et Manuscrits Aljamiado. Zaghouan, 2003. P. 83 - 92.

Liberez ces peoples du capital de l'Europe Occidentale // Cahiers du mouvement ouvrier. P. N 19. Dec. 2002 - janv. 2003. P. 77 - 89.

Istoriya Vostoka [History of the East], Vol. IV, Book 1, Moscow, 2004, Auth. ch.: Alzhir, Tunis, Lybia, pp. 114-119;

399-403; Book 2. Moscow, 2005. Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. pp. 66-69, 347-349.

Muslims in the UK // Tatarskiy mir, Moscow, 2004, N 4 (33), pp. 1-7.

The Muslim world and the First World War // East (Oriens). 2004. N 1. pp. 57-72.

Polietnicheskie obshchestva: problemy kul'turnykh razlichikh [Polyethnic societies: problems of cultural differences], Moscow, 2004, pp. 219-233.

Political culture and violence in the world of Islam / / The Middle East and Modernity. Moscow, 2004. Issue. 23. p. 3-12.

Causes and factors of radicalization of Islam / / Islam in the modern East, Moscow, 2004, pp. 189-199.

A new history of Asian and African countries. Social evolution of the countries of the East; Political evolution of the countries of the East. pp. 42-107; Part 2. Central Asia in the XVI-XIXbb. pp. 183-222; Caucasus in the XVI-XIX centuries. pp. 267-349.

Mediterranean: community of history and culture / / Otechestvennye zapiski. Moscow, 2004. N5. pp. 281-2.

Farhat Abbas / / Questions of History. 2004. N 9. pp. 58-82.

Preface: The phenomenon of mestizization in history and culture. 7 - 14 // Krylova N. L., Prozhogina S. V. Mestizos: who are they? Moscow, 2004.

Istoriya arabnykh stran [History of Arab countries]. un-t, 2005.319 p.

Political Islam: preliminary results/ Institute of the Middle East, Moscow, 2005, 266 p.

Ahmed Messali Hadj / / Voprosy istorii. 2005. N3. pp. 47-71.

Istoriya islama v Rossii [History of Islam in Russia]. Nizhny Novgorod, 2005, pp. 95-106.

Letter to the editor. On the subject of S. M. Iskhakov's book "Russian Muslims and the Revolution (spring 1917-summer 1918)" / / Vostok. Oriens. 2005. N 2. pp. 216-221.

Political Islam: roots and Evolution / / Arabia Vitalis. Arab East, Islam, ancient Arabia, Moscow, 2005, pp. 214-227.

Les agglomerations morisco-andalouses en Méditerranée et leur importance économique et sociale // Huellas literarias e impactos de los moriscos en Túnez у en América Latina. Tunis, 2005. P. 133 - 140.

Istoriya Vostoka [History of the East], Vol. 5, Moscow, 2006, Ed.: Part 1: Introduction, pp. 5-9; Ch. 1, 2. Ch. 10 - 45; Ch. 5, 6. P. 90-130; Ch. II. Ch. 1, 2, 3 (combined with E. N. Usova). p. 131-174; Ch. 5-10. p. 187-244; Conclusion. p. 649-653. (Rel. ed. volume).

Go hand in hand. Ismail bey Gasprinsky on the Muslim issue in Russia / / Rodina, Moscow, 2006, No. 12, pp. 58-61.

Konflikt i sintez kul'tury v strane Al-Andalus (VIII-XV centuries) [Conflict and synthesis of cultures in the country of Al-Andalus (VIII-XV centuries)].

Maxim Rodinson-an outstanding Islamic scholar of the 20th century //Asia and Africa today. 2006. N 10. pp. 50-57.

International Forum of Orientalists and Africanists in St. Petersburg. Oriens. 2006. N 4. pp. 155-161.

Political Islam: yesterday, today, tomorrow / / Oriental Studies and African Studies at the universities of St. Petersburg, Russia, and Europe. SPb., 2006. N 4. P. 47.

Political Islam and Muslim women / / The Middle East and Modernity, Moscow, 2006, issue 29, pp. 161-173.

Political Islam and the Western world / / Vostok-Zapad, Moscow, 2006, pp. 89-101.

Russian Oriental Studies and some aspects of Mediterranean studies // The Word and Wisdom of the East. Literature, folklore, and culture. To the 60th anniversary of Academician A. B. Kudelin, Moscow, 2006, pp. 127-137.

Preface: The Country of Contrasts on the way to the XXI century. p. 6 - 10 // Sudan: islamotraditsionalizm i armii [Sudan: islamotraditsionalizm and Army], Moscow, 2006.

Echo of July explosions in London 2005 / / Middle East and Modernity, Moscow, 2006, issue 27, pp. 78-94.

I remember // Gleria Shirokova: "I would like to talk to you". Moscow, 2006. pp. 110-114.

The Mediterranean Region: Common History and Culture. M., 2006. From 42 to 49.

A. I. Levkovsky and the Sociology of the Modern East // Vostochny sotsium [Eastern Society], Moscow, 2007, pp. 11-22.

Konflikt i sintez kul'tury v strane Al-Andalus (VIII-XV vv.) [Conflict and synthesis of cultures in the country of Al-Andalus (VIII-XV vv.)]. 38-th ICANAS. 10-15.09.2007. Ankara. Abstracts. pp. 323-324.

Kul'turnoe vliyanie arabov Sicilii na Evropu IX-XIII vv. [Cultural influence of the Sicilian Arabs on Europe in the IX-XIII centuries]. Arabskie_strany Zapadnoy Azii i Severnaya Afrika, Moscow, 2007, pp. 322-341.

Political Islam: yesterday, today, tomorrow / / Oriental Studies and African Studies at the universities of St. Petersburg, Russia and Europe. International Scientific Conference 2006 Documents and materials. St. Petersburg: SPb., 2007. pp. 98-104.

L'activité maritime et militaire des Maures Andalous et des Morisques au Maghreb // Imagines, escritos у lengua de los Moriscos en el siglo XVI, Tunis. 2007. H. 57 - 67.

Sotsiologiya sovremennogo Vostoka [Sociology of the Modern East], Moscow, 2008, 415 p.

Alzhir / / Istoriya Vostoka [History of the East], Moscow, 2008, Vol. VI, Pp. 103-112.

Algeria a quarter of a century later // Asia and Africa today. 2008. N 9. p. 18-25; N 10. p. 11-15.

Islamovedenie v Nizhni Novgorod [Islamic Studies in Nizhny Novgorod]. 2008. N 3. pp. 177-187.

Preface: The Maghreb is mystical and mysterious. 3 - 7 // Dyakov N. N. Muslim Maghreb, St. Petersburg, 2008.

Muslims of Russia together with Russia: on the results of the III All-Russian Muslim Forum// Asia and Africa today. 2008. N2. pp. 56-60.

Russia and Algeria: common features of the transition period// East (Oriens). 2008. N 5. pp. 139-146.

The roots and causes of radical Islamism in Central Asia // Russia-Central Asia-Radical Islamism, Moscow, 2009, pp. 112-128.

Moslems of Aragon and Castile in the XI-XV centuries. 2009. N 9. pp. 132-141.

Politicheskiy islam i zapadnoe obshchestvo [Political Islam and Western Society]. Vostochny sotsium i religiya, Moscow, 2009, pp. 7-18.

Political Islam and events in Gaza / / The Middle East: challenges of the XXI century / IV RAS, Institute of the Middle East, Moscow, 2009. pp. 8-25.

The fate of the Morisks / / Vostok (Oriens). 2009. N6. pp. 5-18.

Millennia of the giant's patience / / Asia and Africa today. 2009. N 1. pp. 77-80.

The East in Europe: from Dubrovnik to Mostar / / Asia and Africa Today. 2010. N 1. pp. 75-79.

Islamism in Central Asia and Russia // Vostok: vyzovy XXI veka [East: Challenges of the XXI century], Moscow, 2010, pp. 9-22.

New Tribune of Islamic Scholars (based on the materials of the magazine "Modern Islam") / / Vostok (Oriens). 2010. N 6. pp. 161-165.

Fifty years ago-veterans of Oriental studies about themselves / / Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Appendix No. 6. Moscow, 2010, pp. 90-104.

The Soviet Union, the Second World War and the East / / USSR and the countries of the East on the eve and during the Second World War. Moscow, 2010. pp. 428-447.

Russia and the world of Russian Islam. Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod: Medina Publ., 2011, 479 p.

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