Dmitry Yuryevich Arapov, a recognized expert on Russian Islam and Central Asia in Russia, a fanatical publisher of archival documents, died suddenly on December 14, 2015. State regulation of Islam; its recognition and legislative formalization in the Russian Empire and the USSR; Russian-Ottoman parallels of confessional politics; Muslim "clergy" and nobility; Russian experts on Islam and institutions that supervised Russian Muslims; projects of regional muftiates; the Muslim question-these are just some of the topics of his broad interests and hobbies. Arapov's works largely determined the direction of research of Russian Muslims in Russian historiography and abroad. Dmitry Yuryevich left a unique style of research, primarily working with primary sources, which greatly influenced the nature of scientific research of his younger colleagues and students. He was born on May 16, 1943 in Yerevan, spent his childhood in post-war Leningrad, but almost all his life and work were connected with the Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov, whose history Department he graduated in 1966. The topic of his thesis was " The history of relations between Central Asia and Iran at the end of the XVI century." Arapov defended his PhD thesis at Moscow State University in 1978. It was soon followed by the monograph " The Bukhara Khanate in Russian Oriental Historiography "(Moscow, Moscow State University Publishing House, 1981, 128 p.), which has not yet lost its significance for the historiography of Russian-Central Asian relations. Arapov's scientific adviser was a well-known historian, head of the Department of History of the USSR during Feudalism, Professor G. A. Novitsky (1896-1981). In your personal settings page 222Arapov repeatedly mentioned the profound influence that the Iranist P. I. Petrov (1884-1971), who spent the last thirty years of his life teaching at Moscow State University, had on him. Like the classic Russian orientalist V. V. Barthold, with whom Petrov s ... Читать далее