Irma Lvovna Fadeeva, Chief Researcher of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, a well-known Russian expert on the history of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and other countries of the Near and Middle East, passed away on September 14, 2013. Irma Lvovna was born in October 1938 in the city of Berdichev in Ukraine in the family of a serviceman. In 1963, she graduated from the Eastern Faculty of Leningrad State University with a degree in Turkish History. In 1973, after several years of working in practical organizations, including abroad, she joined the Institute of Slavic Studies and Balkan Studies, and in February 1979 began working at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1978, she defended her PhD thesis on "The Ottoman Empire after the Crimean War and Anglo-Turkish relations in the 50s and 60s of the XIX century", and in 1990-her doctoral dissertation " Official doctrines in the ideology and politics of the Ottoman Empire in the XIX-early XX century. "Ottomanism and Pan-Islamism." Coming to science rather late, Irma Lvovna managed to do a lot. As an exceptionally conscientious and enthusiastic researcher, she focused not only on the political history of Ottoman Turkey in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Turkey's place in the system of international relations, its ideology and political doctrines, but also on such key and cardinal problems of historical science as the theory of power in the East, the differences between Asian models of political, more broadly, social development differs from European and Western ones. In 1993, the Nauka publishing house published the main book of I. L. Fadeeva "The Concept of Power in the Middle East", which is distinguished by a pronounced creative character. The author appears in it as a specialist of a broad profile, equally easily operating with material on classical antiquity and later times. Irma Lvovna had a firm and clear view of ... Читать далее