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Content

Author(s) Pages

 Contents

Editorial

11

 HISTORICAL Studies AND ARCHАEOLOGY

 DISCUSSION

Alaev L. B. History as a Problem

12-19

 Ancient Egypt

Riddles of the Predynastic Petroglyphs Adjusted for Climate and Hydrology: Boats (and Rivers?) in the Upper Egyptian Eastern Wadis

20-42

Frog in Egyptian Noble Tombs of the Old Kingdom: A Sacred Symbol or a Typical Inhabitant of the Nile Marsh?

43-54

Harpocrates with Royal Attributes and Harpocrates-Eros: Egyptian Terracotta Figurines from the Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

55-69

Terracotta Oil Lamps from Graeco-Roman Memphis

70-85

 Ancient CHINA

Second Millennium B.C. Chronology and the ‘Great Settlement Shang’ (14th–11th Centuries B.C.): Introduction

86-95

 TURKIC WORLD YESTERDAY AND TODAY

The Struggle between Khwarezm and the Ghurid State according to Arab-Persian Sources

96-108

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

109-115

 Visualising Orient

Early Christian and Hebrew Iconographic Conventions of the Sacrifice of Abraham Scene in Ethiopian Painting of 13th–14th Centuries

116-125

Exception to the Rule: How Adaptation Genius Matteo Ricci Failed to Understand Chinese Painting

126-135

 ORIENTAL MENTALITY

Cultural Interaction between Safavid Iran and Ottoman Turkey in 16th Century

136-148

The Dalai Lama and Academic Research. To the 85th Anniversary of the 14th Dalai Lama

149-161

 ORIENT ET OCCIDENT

The Russian Consul in Damascus Prince Boris N. Shakhovskoy’s Role in Interfaith Peace on the Eve of the First World War

162-178

The Role of England in the Formation of the Proto-Statehood of the Iraqi Kurds after the First World War (1918–1920) in the Mandate Territories Form

179-191

 Phaleristica Orientalia

New Orders of Indonesia — Bintang Kemanusiaan and Bintang Penegak Demokrasi

192-200

 FROM THE HISTORY OF Russian Oriental STUDIES

Studies of the Crimean Peninsula by Russian Scientists (The End of the 18th Century)

201-209

The Chinese ‘Ideographic’ Script: Evolution of Perceptions (Based on the 19th Century Authors)

210-218

Fedorchenko A. V., Maryasis D. A. Israeli Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Pages of History (The Beginning of the 21st Century)

219-232

 TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARIES

Balbir Madhopuri. Kãṭīlī rāhõ ke rāhī / The Thorny Path (Chapter from Chāṅgiā rukh / Against the Night)

233-246

HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL studies

247-256

The Interplay of Ethical and Institutional Transformations: The Case of Chinese Reforms

257-268

Lebanon: A New Phase of the Political Crisis

269-279

Turkish Educational Institutions in Iraqi Kurdistan: History and Current Situation (Gülen Schools and the Maarif Foundation)

280-294

 PHILOLOGICAL studies

 LINGUAE ORIENTALES

Corpus of Koraput Munda Languages: Goals and Special Aspects

295-301

 Academic EVENTS

 Critical and bibliographical surveys

Rereading. Once Again about the Book of Sergey V. Kullanda “The Scythians: Language and Ethnogenesis”

302-306

A New Book on the History of Khazar Qaghanate. Review of: Özcan A. T. Hazar kağanlığı ve etrafındaki dünya

307-312

Review of: Ye. G. Vyrshchikov “City — Village — Forest: The World of the Creators of the Pali Canon and Their Contemporaries”

313-317

 CHRONICLES OF CONFERENCES

First Seminar ‘Dynasties and Succession to the Throne in Ancient China’. Series “Colloquium Stanislavi. Terminology Describing Power and Kinship in Ancient China”

318-325

Review of the International Academic Conference ‘The Roerich Family Heritage: Bridge between India and Russia. Marking the Centenary of the Creation of the Philosophical Teaching of Living Ethics’

326-342

IV International Academic Conference ‘Connections of the Crimea with the Mediterranean Region and the Countries of the East’

343-348

 Gratulatoria

“I Would Like to Leave the Text and Enter Life”: To the 70th Anniversary of the Prominent Orientalist Vladimir V. Malyavin

349-351

 In memoriam

Remembering Oleg E. Nepomnin (1935–2020)

352-356

 library collections

Books on Oriental Topics Published in Moscow in 2019

357-366

Alphabetical Index of Articles Published in the Journal of the Institute of Oriental Studies RAS in 2020

367