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 Contents

Editorial

 HISTORICAL Studies AND ARCHАEOLOGY

 Field studies

Expedition to Mali, 2020

 Discussion

Problems of the Oriental History and Modernity: Reflections on Leonid B. Alaev’s Book

 Egyptology

King Pepi’s Role in Forming Memphis, the Future Capital of Egypt

 ANCIENT NECROPOLIS OF GIZA: PAGES OF LATE HISTORY

Islamic Coins from Eastern Giza (Egypt)

G. B. Caviglia and the Beginning of the Archaeological Study of Rock-Cut Tombs of the Eastern Escarpment of Giza

Ceramic Pipes-Ottomans from Giza: On the History of Tobacco Smoking in the Orient

 TURKIC WORLD YESTERDAY AND TODAY

To the Name of the “King of Türks” in the Chronicle of Fredegar

Description of Khorasan and Transoxiana Cities’ Lot during the Mongol Invasion in the Arab-Persian Geographical Texts

Turkish Contingent at the Communist University of Workers of the East. Part I

 ORIENTAL MENTALITY

Makoto as the Initial Principle of the Ethical and Aesthetic Beliefs of the Japanese

The Chakuda no Matsurigoto Ritual of Heian Japan Judiciary

Foreigner Servants in an Indian Princely State Bhopal (19th — Early 20th Centuries)

 ORIENT ET OCCIDENT

British Deists and “Sharavadgism”: From Intellectual Landscape to the Landscape Park

The Origins of European Indology: Bartholomeus Ziegenbalg’s Letter on India

“Letters of Sea Cadet Jean” As a Source on Taiwan History during Sino-French War of 1884–1885

East Indian and Other Docks in London: Imperial Architecture, Colonial Trade and Postcolonial Memory

 FROM THE HISTORY OF Russian Oriental STUDIES

Israeli Studies in the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS: Pages of History (from the End of 1950’s till the 1990’s)

 Phaleristica Orientalia

The Military Award of Indonesia Bintang Sakti — The Sacred Star

 TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARIES

O̅ta Gyu̅ichi. «Shinchō-kō ki», Book IX (Commented Translation into Russian)

Balbir Madhopuri. Kore kāġaz kī gahrī likhat / Inscriptions on a Tender Mind (A Chapter from Chāṅgiā rukh / Against the Night)

 HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL studies

 POLITICAL CONFLICT STUDIES

The Syrian Crisis: History and Current Politics

Saudi Arabia at the Top of Political Turbulence

Israeli Historiography on Soviet Politics in the Middle Eastern Wars

 Economy and politics of Asian and African Countries

 in the 21st century

Japanese Transport in the Ocean of Economic and Natural Shocks

On the Issue of COVID-19 Influence on the Israeli Socio-Economic Development

 PHILOLOGICAL studies

 LINGUAE ORIENTALES

Nicobarese languages and Old Khmer: forms of dependent predication

Manhwa as a Source of the Extralinguistic Information for Background Knowledge Formation while Teaching Korean to Russian-Speaking Students

On Some Features of Transmission of Experientive Self-Reference State in the Arabic Language (On the Base of Corpora Material)

 Academic EVENTS

 In memoriam

Remembering a Generous Man. In Memoriam Anatoly A. Kutsenkov (January 14, 1929 — August 01, 2020)

To the Memory of Stanislav I. (Robert) Kuczera (May 05, 1928 — July 28, 2020)