Persons

Alexeev
Igor L.

PhD in History

IOS RAS » Department of Anthropology of the East » researcher

Scientific Interests

Arabic and Islamic Studies, Middle East History, Cultural and Political Anthropology, Cultural Studies, History of Islam in Russia and the West, Inter-Cultural Relations between Russia, the West and the Muslim World.

Education

MA in Oriental and African Studies, June 1998, Oriental Department, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
PhD in History, September 2002, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia (dissertation “Islam as a factor of Russian social and political life in the 19th – early 20th centuries)

Teaching

1998 — 2024:
Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow (Courses taught: History of the Middle East and Islam; Arabic Language, Islamic Culture, Islam in the Modern World, Islam in Russia);
2001 – 2003 (part-time):
State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Dept. of Sociology (Courses taught: Sociocultural An-thropology [includings sections on the Middle East]; Arabic Language, Introduction to Islam);
2004 – 2006 (part time):
Institute of Business and Politics, Moscow, Department of Oriental Languages (Courses taught: Arabic Lan-guage, Muslim Culture, the Middle East History)
2007 – 2008 (part time): Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), Department of Oriental Studies, School of International Relations, (Courses taught: Arab History)
2011, 2012 (visiting lecturer): Gumilev Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan (Courses taught: History of Islam)

Main publications

  1. Alexeev, I., & Ragozina, S. (2017). From 'Good' to 'Right' Islam: The Categories and Concepts in the Modern Russian Analytics and ideology Language. Islamology, 7(1), 2017, 88-105.
  2. Alexeev, I. "Between Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Taymiyya: Islamic Socio-Political Ideal and Dynastic Autocracy (Reflections on the Tide of "Arab Spring")," Journal of Ibn Haldun Studies [İbn Haldun Çalışmaları Dergisi], Ibn Haldun University, 2017, vol. 2(2). P. 171-184.
  3. Alexeev, Igor, Ksenia Kulikova, and Sofia Lahuti. Andalusi Utopia and Muslim Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Russia: Ismail Gasprinskii’s Epistolary Novel Dar al-Rahat // Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts. Ed. Rachel Scott, AbdoolKarim Vakil, and Julian Weiss. Boydell & Brewer, 2021. P. 179–204.
  4. Alekseev,I.L. and Samoilova,E.E.(2024), “Voices of change. Women’s reformism in modern Islam”, RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. “Political Science. History. International Relations” Series, no.5, pp.177–198.
  5. Alekseev, Igor. (2011). Between Ibn Khaldun and Ibn Taymiyya: in search of an explanatory paradigm of 2011’s Arab revolutions. Islamology. 4. 90-113.