INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Saint Petersburg, Russia

INSTITUTE OF ISMAILI STUDIES
London, United Kingdom

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE TO 125TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF WLADIMIR ALEKSEYEVICH IVANOW. ISMAILI TRADITIONS AND SPIRITUALITY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE PAMIRS IN THE WORKS OF RUSSIAN SCHOLARS

PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE

December, 7-9, 2011, IOM RAS, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Day 1 – Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Green Hall of the Novo-Mikhailovsky Palace (Dvortsovaya nab., 18, IOM RAS)

10:30 REGISTRATION

SESSION I

OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

Chair: Irina Popova, Director, IOM, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

11:00 Welcoming speeches:

Irina Popova, Director, IOM RAS

Hakim Elnazarov, Coordinator of Central Asian Studies, IIS

Stanislav Prozorov, Deputy Director, IOM RAS

11:45 Farhad Daftary, Co-director, IIS, London, UK (keynote speech). Wladimir Ivanow and Modern Ismaili Studies

12:15-12:45 Coffee Break

SESSION II

IVANOW AND MODERN ISMAILI STUDIES

Chair: Aliy Kolesnikov, IOM, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

12:45 Davlat Khudonazarov, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, named after N.N Miklukho-Maklay, RAS, Moscow, Russia. Count Aleksey Bobrinskoy – Founder of the Ismaili Studies in Russia

13:05 Alexeу Khismatulin, Researcher, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, IOM, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia. W. Ivanow on the Ahl-i Haqq teachings

13:25 Lola Taneeva-Salomatshoeva, Senior Researcher, Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, Moscow, Russia. Contribution of A. E. Bertels to the Ismaili Studies

13:45-14.45 Lunch at the House of Scholars (Dvortsovaya nab., 26)

SESSION III

ARCHIVAL SOURCES AND ISMAILI COLLECTIONS

Chair: Alexey Khismatulin, IOM, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

14:45 Boris Norik, Researcher, IOM, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia. Materials of the W. Ivanow in the Archives of Orientalists of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (IOM) RAS. A Brief Survey

15:05 Victor Dzevanovskiy, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Iranologists W.A. Ivanov and A.A. Romaskevitch in the Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences

15:25 Aliy Kolesnikov, Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, IOM RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia. Correspondence between W.A. Ivanow and H. Corben (1947-1966)

15:45 Shozodamamad Mamadsherzodshoev, Head of Manuscript Project, IIS, Khorog, Tajikistan. Contribution of Russian Scholars to the Collecting and Study of the Written Heritage of Peoples of Badakhshan

16:05-16:45 Coffee break

SESSION IV

EXPEDITIONS TO THE PAMIRS AND REGIONAL STUDIES

Chair: Davlat Khudonazarov, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, named after N.N Miklukho-Maklay, RAS, Moscow, Russia

16:45 Anton Alekseyev, Associate Professor, Department of Central Asia and Caucasus, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. The Campaign of General M.E. Ionov to the Western Pamir and the Establishment of the Pamir Station (1894)

17:05 Nina Lujetskaya, Senior Research Associate, IOM, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia. Materials on Regional Geography in the Collection of A. E. Snesarev in the Archives of Orientalists of the IOM, RAS

17:25 Elbon Hojibekov, Head of the Department of History, Khorog State University, Khorog, Tajikistan. Study of the Ismaili Pirs of Shughnan of Badakhshan in the Works of Russian Scholars

17:45 Viewing of the IOM Collections

Day 2 – Thursday, 8 December 2011

Green Hall of the Novo-Mikhailovsky Palace (Dvortsovaya nab., 18, IOM RAS)

SESSION V

ISMAILI PHILOSOPHY IN RUSSIAN SCHOLARSHIP

Chair: Andrey Smirnov, Institute of Philosophy, RAS, Moscow, Russia

10:30 Andrey Smirnov, Correspondent Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of the Department of the Philosophy of Islamic World, Institute of Philosophy, RAS, Moscow, Russia (keynote speech). A Philosophy of al-Kirmani in Islamic Context

11:00 Aleksandr Arapov, Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology of the All-Russian State Distance-Learning Institute of Finance and Economics, Moscow, Russia. The Concept of Universal Intellect and Universal Soul in Russian Religious Philosophy and Ismailism

11:20 Sunatullo Jonboboev, Senior Researcher, University of Central Asia, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The Idea of Philosophy of History in Ismailism

11:40 Ramazon Nazariev, Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy and Culture, Tajik State Pedagogical University, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Contribution of Russian Scholars to the Study of Ismaili Philosophy and Theology

12:00-12:20 Coffee break

SESSION VI

PROSPECTS AND APPROACHES TO THE ISMAILI STUDIES

Chair: Farhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK

12:20 Sarfaroz Niyozov, Associate Professor of Curriculum Studies and Teacher Development, Co-director of the Center for Comparative, International and Development Education at OISE, University of Toronto, Canada. A Comparative Review of W. Ivanow’s and A. Bertels Works on Nasir Khusraw and Ismailism: Toward Rethinking Central Asian Ismaili Studies

12:40 Hakim Elnazarov, Coordinator of the Central Asian Studies, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK. Prospects for Developing Collaboration with the Institute of Ismaili Studies

13:00-14.00 Lunch at the House of Scholars (Dvortsovaya nab., 26)

14:30-18:00 Visit to the exhibition Architecture in Islamic arts. Treasures of the Aga Khan Museum at the State Hermitage Museum (Halls of Byzantine and Middle East)

Day 3 – Friday, 9 December 2011

Green Hall of the Novo-Mikhailovsky Palace (Dvortsovaya nab., 18, IOM RAS)

SESSION VII

PILGRIMAGE CENTERS AND PRACTICES

Chair: Sarfaroz Niyozov, University of Toronto, Canada

10:30 Rahmat Rahimov, Senior Researcher, Department of Ethnography of Central Asia, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia. Shi‘i Objects of Cult in the Sunni Environment of Central Asia

10:50 Sharaf Oshurbekov, Ph.D Student, Department of Social Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of York, Toronto, Canada. Contested Spaces and Contested Meanings - Muslim Places of Worship in Badakhshan

11:20 Nikolay Terletskiy, Research Associate, Department of Ethnography of Central Asia, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) RAS, St.Petersburg, Russia. The Study of the Ismaili Places of Pilgrimage and Worship of the Western Pamirs in Russian Science (History and Modernity)

11:40-12:00 Coffee break

SESSION VIII

HISTORICAL SOURCES AND MONUMENTS

Chair: Rahmat Rahimov, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

12:00 Konstantin Vasiltsov, Researcher, Department of Ethnography of Central Asia, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography named after Peter the Great (Kunstkamera) RAS, St.Petersburg, Russia. On a Document from the Archives of Ivan Zarubin (F. 121, IOM RAS)

12:20 Tohir Kalandarov, Senior Researcher, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, named after N.N Miklukho-Maklay, RAS, Moscow, Russia. On a Letter by academician Litvinskiy, B.A to the Chairman of the Tajik Republican Department of the Soviet Cultural Foundation

12:40 Pavel Basharin, Head of the Department of Iranian Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia. Legends about Saint Al-Khallaj in the Pamirs in the Context of Sufi Hagiology

13:00-14:00 Lunch at the House of Scholars (Dvortsovaya nab., 26)

14:00 Konstantin Kravtsov, Head of the Ancient and Oriental Numismatics Branch, Numismatic Department, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Ismailism in the Monuments of Applied Arts. Glass Weight of the Fatimid Period

SESSION IX

STUDY OF THE PAMIRI LANGUAGES IN RUSSIAN SCHOLARSHIP

Chair: Hakim Elnazarov, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK

14:20 Boghsho Lashkarbekov, Senior Research Associate, Department of Iranian Languages, Institute of Linguistics, RAS, Moscow, Russia. Contribution of the Russian and Soviet Scholars of the Iranian and Pamiri Studies to the Study of Languages and Spiritual Life of the Pamiri People

14:40 Shodikhon Yusufbekov, Director, Institute of Humanities, AST, Khorog, Tajikistan. Linguistic School of D.Ī. Edelman

15:00 Leila Dodykhudoeva, Senior Researcher, Department of Iranian Languages, Institute of Linguistics, RAS, Moscow, Russia. A Fragment of the 'Worldview' of the Peoples of the Western Pamirs based on Language Data: Space and Landscape

15:20-15:50 Coffee break

SESSION X

FINAL DISCUSSIONS AND CLOSING REMARKS

15:50 Closing remarks:

Stanislav Prozorov, Head of Department of Middle Eastern and Near Eastern Studies, Deputy Director for Academic Affairs, IOM RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia

16:20 – 18:00 Visit to the exhibition Count Aleksey Bobrinskoy - traveler, ethnographer and art historian at the Russian Museum of Ethnography (Inzhenernaya str., 1/4)

Official languages of the Conference: Russian, English