The best monographs published by the IOM’s researchers late 2008 through 2009 were selected. The IOM’s awards were given to the authors of the following works: - for the fundamental researches: Dandamayev М.А. Mesopotamia and Iran during the 7th to 4th Centuries BCE. Social Institutions and Ideology [Месопотамия и Иран в VII—IV вв. до н.э. Социальные институты и идеология]. St Petersburg 2009; Kychanov E.I. The History of Tangut State [История тангутского государства]. St Petersburg 2008; Rybakov V.M. The T’ang Bureaucracy. Part 1: Genesis and Structure [Танская бюрократия. Часть I. Генезис и структура]. St Petersburg, Petreburgskoe Vostokovedenie Publishers 2009; - for the edition of texts and contribution to scarcely studied areas of the Oriental studies: Khuastvanift. Manichaean Confession of Sins [Хуастванифт (Манихейское покаяние в грехах)]. Introduction, transcription of Uigur text, translation by L.Y.Tugusheva. Notes by A.L.Khosroyev. Facsimile edition. St Petersburg, Nestor-Istoriya Publishers 2008; Katkova I.R. The Malayan Treatise ‘Tuhfat ar-ragibin fi bayan hakikat al-iman’ (‘The Gift to Those Thirsting for the Explanation of the Truth of Faith’) as a Source on the History of Sufism in the Malay Archipelago [Памятник малайской литературы «Тухфат ар-рагибин фи байан хакикат ал-иман» («Дар жаждущим в объяснение истинности веры») как источник по истории суфизма на Малайском архипелаге]. St Petersburg 2009; Frantsouzoff S.A. Raibun: Inscriptions and People: Epigraphy, Religious Life and Social Organization of the Cult Centre of Ancient Hadramawt [Райбун: надписи и люди: эпиграфические памятники, религиозная жизнь и социальное устройство культового центра древнего Хадрамаута]. St Petersburg 2009; Nadirov I.I. Hatra: the Arabs between Parthia and Rome [Хатра. Арабы между Парфией и Римом]. St Petersburg: Gumanitarnaya Akademiya Publishers 2009; - for the study аnd translation of texts from the collection of the IOM RAS: Hymns To Tārā [Гимны Таре]. Tr. from Tibetan, with introduction and appendices by A.Zorin. Moscow, Otkryty Mir Publishers 2009; - for edition of the academic heritage of the scholars who worked at the Institute: Ōtsuki Gentaku, Shimura Hiroyuki. Kankai ibun. Miraculous News about the Seas Encircling (The Earth) [Канкай ибун. «Удивительные сведения об окружающих [Землю] морях»]. Translation, introduction, notes by V.N.Goreglyad. Ed. by K.G.Maranjian. St Petersburg, Hyperion Publishers 2009; The Japanese Mosaic: Collected Essays in Memory of Prof V.N.Goreglyad [Японская мозаика: сборник статей памяти профессора В.Н.Горегляда]. Ed. by A.M.Kabanoff, K.G.Maranjian. St Petersburg, Hyperion Publishers 2009; - for popularization of Orientalist academic knowledge: Ostrovskaya E.P., Rudoi V.I. Cosmos and Karma: An Introduction into Buddhist Culture [Космос и карма: введение в буддийскую культуру]. St Petersburg, SPbKO Publishers 2009. |