EDUCATION
1980-1986   Institute for Oriental Studies, The USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad (presently St. Petersburg), Ph.D. in Islamic Studies.

1974-1979   The State University of Leningrad, Department of Oriental Studies, B.A./M.A. in Arabic Literature and Culture, (Honors)

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1997-present   Professor of Islamic Studies, The University of Michigan 1998-2004 Co-Director, Program on Study in Religion, The University of Michigan

1998– 2004   Professor of Islamic Studies and Chairman, The Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan

2000–2001   Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The University of Michigan

1997–1998   The Sharjah Chair of Islamic Studies, The Department of Arabic and Middle East Studies, The University of Exeter, Devonshire, UK

1994–1997   Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1993–1994   Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO

1992–1993   Visiting Assistant Professor and Rockefeller Fellow in the Humanities, Center for the Study of Islamic Societies and Civilizations, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

1991–1992   Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ

1990–1991   Special Lecturer on History of Islamic Civilization, The College of Religion and Philosophy, St. Petersburg, Russia

1988–1991   Senior Researcher and Academic Secretary, The Islamic Studies Group, Institute for Oriental Studies, Leningrad/St. Petersburg, Russia

1988–1991   Visiting Lecturer on Middle Eastern History and Islamic Studies, The State University of Leningrad/St. Petersburg, Russia

1986–1989   Member, Soviet-Yemeni Historical and Archeological Mission in South Arabia, The Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen

1984–1988   Junior Researcher, The Department of Middle East Studies, Institute for Oriental Studies, The USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, USSR

1980–1984   Graduate Student/Research Assistant, The Institute for Oriental Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Leningrad, USSR

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
Organizer, Faculty Seminar, The University of Northern Colorado, 1993–1994;

Coordinator, Lectureship Committee, Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan, 1994–1995;

Member of the Admissions Committee, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan, 1994–1997;

Member of the Fellowship Committee, same as above, 1994 and 1996;

Chair, Fellowships and TA-ships Committee, The Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan, 1996–1997;

Director, Admissions Committee, same as above, 1996–1997;

Post-Graduate Admissions Tutor, Department of Arabic and Middle East Studies, The University of Exeter, 1997–1998;

Chair, Student-Faculty Liaison Committee, same as above, 1997–1998;

Modular Degree Coordinator, same as above, 1997–1998;

Chair, The Department of Near Eastern Studies, The University of Michigan, 1998-2004.

Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The University of Michigan, 2000–2001.

Co-Director, Program on Studies in Religion, The University of Michigan, 2001–present.

LANGUAGES
Arabic (Classical, Modern Standard, Yemeni vernacular), Russian (native), English, French, German, some Spanish, some Persian.

ACADEMIC HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
President-Elect (2006-2009), The Central Eurasian Studies Society of North America.

Resource faculty and moderator, “Teaching Islam in Eurasia,” a three-year summer institute (2005-2008) organized by the Social Science Research Council, Washington D.C. and funded by the Open Society Institute, Budapest and the Mellon Foundation; Kazan, 2005; Bishkek, 2006; and Alma-Ata, 2007.

An NEH grant to organize and conduct a summer workshop for high school teachers on the topic “The Arab World and the West,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 7-August 2, 2002 ($150,000), co-director with Michael Fahy and Ron Stockton.

A John R. and Betty B. Edman Award for Faculty Scholarship and Teaching ($25,000), College of Literature, Science and the Arts, The University of Michigan, 1997–2002;

Rackham Summer Research Fellowship ($7,000), The University of Michigan, June-August, 1995;

Fellow, The Center for the Study of Islamic Societies and Civilizations, Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowships in the Humanities, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1992–1993 ($28,000);

Member, The Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, 1991–1992 ($20,000);

Honorary awards for the best series of articles and papers by young scholars, The USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad, 1986, 1988, 1989.

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Section editor ("Sufism"), the Editorial Board of the 3d edition of the Encyclopeadia of Islam, E.J. Brill, Leiden.

Member, the Editorial Board of Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, K. G. Saur, München and Leipzig.

President-Elect, Central Eurasian Studies Society of North America (2005-2008).

FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Member of the Soviet-Yemeni Archeological and Historical Mission, the Historical and Anthropological Team. Conducted field research in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen (presently, Yemeni Republic), 1986-1989. Topics studied: social and religious history of South Arabia with special reference to the cult of saints, local manuscript tradition, transmission of knowledge, teaching institutions, social stratification and tribal organization. The last research trip to Yemen was in Oct.-Nov., 1999.

PUBLICATIONS

Books
 Ibn al-‘Arabi’s “Meccan Revelations”: Man, Metaphysics and Mysticism, St. Petersburg Center for Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg, 1994 (in Russian).

Ibn ‘Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition: The making of a polemical image in medieval Islam, SUNY Press, 1998 (449 pp.) (in English).

Islamic Mysticism: A Short History, E.J. Brill, Leiden-Boston-Köln, 2000 (358 pp.) (in English). A Russian translation of this book (with the author’s additions and revisions) was published in August 2004 as Aleksandr Knysh, Musul’manskii mistitsizm: kratkaia istoriia. Translated from English by M. Romanov, St. Petersburg, Dilia Publishers, 2004.

Judaism, Christianity and Islam: A sourcebook. Written and complied by Yaron Eliav, Alexander Knysh, and Ralph Williams, Kendall-Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, 2005.

In progress/soon-to-be published:
Islam in History: A textbook, commissioned by the Pearson-Longman Publishing House, New York; in progress; to be completed by June 2006.

Islam and Empire in the Caucasus, 1800 to the present, commissioned by the Princeton University Press; to be completed by January 2008.

Al-Qushayri’s Epistle on Sufism: An annotated translation (commissioned by the Garnet Publishers, U.K.); the corrected proof of the text was returned to the Publisher in June 2006 (850 pp.)

The Cult of the Saints and Seasonal Pilgrimage Centers in Hadramawt (South Arabia). In progress (provisional).

Representation of Islam and the Muslims in the Russian media, literature and academic discourses (provisional).

Book Sections (English)
Chapter 2.“Sufism,” Michael Cook (ed.), The New Cambridge History of Islam, vol. 4; submitted to the Editor in October 2004.

Chapter 10. “Multiple Areas of Influence [of the Qur’an],” Jane McAuliffe (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an, submitted to the Editor in January 2005.

Chapter 6. “Historiography of Sufi Studies in the West,” A Companion for the History of the Middle East. Ed. by Youssef M. Choueiri, Blackwell, Oxford, 2005, pp. 106-131.

“The Cult of Saints and Religious Reformism in Hadhramaut,” in U. Freitag and W. Clarence-Smith (eds.), Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1997, pp. 199-216.

Chapter 70 “Islamic Philosophy in Russia and the Soviet Union,” in S.H. Nasr and O. Leaman (eds.), History of Islamic Philosophy, Routledge, London and New York, 1996, vol. 1, pt. 2, pp. 1156-1161.

“Ibn al-‘Arabi” and “Ibn al-Khatib,” in M.R. Menocal, M. Sells, R. Scheindlin (eds.), Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of al-Andalus. Ed. by Maria R. Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin and Michael Sells, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 331-344 and 358-372.

Twenty-four contributions to the Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, vols. 1 and 2, Routledge, London, 1998.

“Sufism in Rasulid Yemen,” in Werner Daum (ed.), Yemen: 3000 Years of Art and Civilization in Arabia Felix, new ed., (Arabic and English), Penguin and Umschau, Innsbruck and Frankfurt/Main, forthcoming.

Articles and Book Reviews (English)
“Was Early Sufism Esoteric?”, Arabia Vitalis: Arabskii Vostok, islam, drevniaia Araviia (A Commemorative Volume for Professor Vitalii Naumkin, Institute for Oriental Studies, Moscow, 2005, pp. 207-213.

“A Clear and Present Danger: ‘Wahhabism’ as a Rhetorical Foil,” Die Welt des Islams; vol. 44/1 (2004), pp. 3-26.

“The Realms of Responsibility in Ibn ‘Arabi’s Futuhat al-makkiya,” Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, vol. 31 (2002) Oxford, UK, pp. 87-99.

“Sufism As An Explanatory Paradigm: The Issue of the Motivations of Sufi Movements in Russian and Western Historiography,” in Die Welt des Islams, vol. 42/2 (2002), pp. 139-173.

“The tariqa on a Landcruiser: The resurgence of Sufi movement in Yemen,” in Middle East Journal, (Washington, D.C.), vol. 3 (Summer 2001), pp. 399-414.

“Teaching Islamic History on the American Campuses: Challenges and theoretical dimensions”, in: Proceeding of the First International Bilingual Conference: Arabic Language and Culture in a Borderless World. Ed. by Lafi M. Alharbi and Hani A. Azer, The University of Kuwait, Faculty of Arts, 2000, pp. 27-38.

“The Sada in History: A critical essay on Hadrami historiography,” in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (JRAS), London, vol. 9/2 (1999), 215-222.
(An Italian version of this article titled “I sadat nella storia: saggio critico sulla storiografia Hadramita” was published in a special issue of Oriente Moderno, vol. 18, new series, 1999, pt. 2, pp. 501-511).

“Western Approaches to the Study of Islamic Societies,” in Europe and Central Asia in the Timurid Period, Tashkent, 1998, pp. 30-32.

“The Cult of Saints and Religious Reformism in Early Twentieth-Century Hadramawt,” in New Arabian Studies, vol. 4 (1997), 139-167.

“Sufi Motifs in Contemporary Arabic Literature: The Case of Ibn ‘Arabi,” in The Muslim World, vol. 86/1 (1996), 33-49.

“Ibrahim al-Kurani (d. 1690), an apologist for wahdat al-wujud,” in JRAS, vol. 5/1 (1995), 39-47.

“The Cult of Saints in Hadramawt: An Overview.” In: The New Arabian Studies. Ed. by R. B. Serjeant, R. L. Bidwell, and G. Rex Smith, Exeter University Press, vol. 1 (1993), pp. 137-152.

“‘Orthodoxy’ and ‘Heresy’ in Medieval Islam: An essay in reassessment.” In: The Muslim World, vol. 1, (January 1993), 48-67.

(Translated into Turkish by Mehmet Kalayci as “Otraçag isam’inda ‘Orthodoxy’ ve ‘Heresy’ Yeni Bir Yaklasim Denemesi”, in : Ilâhiyat fakültesi dergisi vol. 45/1 (2004),
pp. 285-305).

“Ibn ‘Arabi in the Later Islamic Tradition,” in: Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi (A.D. 1165 1240): Volume of Translations and Studies Commemorating the 750th Anniversary of His Life and Work. Ed. by S. Hirtenstein and M. Tiernan. Element Book, Shaftesbury, Dorset/Rockport, Massachusetts, Brisbane/Queensland, 1992, 307-327.

“Ibn ‘Arabi in the Yemen: His admirers and detractors.” In: Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society, Oxford, vol. 11, 1992, 38-63.

“‘Irfan Revisited: Khomeini and the Legacy of Islamic Mystical Philosophy.” In: Middle East Journal, Washington D.C., vol. 46, autumn 1992, 631-653.
(Translated into Persian by Muhammad Amjad in Naqd va Nazar, vol. 6/1-2 (2000), pp.
2-30, Qum, Iran).

“The Soviet-Yemeni Mission in South Arabia: Nine years of fruitful research.” Yemen Update: Bulletin of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies, Westbury, NY, vol. 3, Summer/Fall 1993, 12-14.

Encylopaedia Articles (English)
“Ramz” (“symbol”), The Encyclopedia of Islam, 2nd edition, (EI2), E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1960–2004; vol. 8, 1994, pp. 135-138.

“Sadjdjada” (“prayer rug”), in EI2, vol. 9, 1995, pp. 741-745.

“Shamil,” EI2, vol. 9, 1996, pp. 283-288.

“Sidk” (“sincerity”), in EI2, vol. 9, 1997, pp. 548-549;

“Ushurma, Shaykh Mansur,” in EI2, vol. 9, 2000, pp. 920-922.

“al-Kabk” (“The Caucasus”): From 1800 up to the present,” in EI2 (Supplement), fasc. 7-8, 2003, pp. 486-501.

“Courage [in the Qur’an],” The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, vol. 1, ed. J. McAuliffe, E.J. Brill, 2001, pp. 458-462.

“Months [in the Qur’an],” ibid., vol. 3, 2003, pp. 408-414.

“Possession and Possessions [in the Qur’an],” ibid., vol. 4, 2005.

“Power and Impotence [in the Qur’an],” ibid., vol. 4, 2005.

“Sufism and the Qur’an,” ibid., vol. 5, 2006, pp. 137-159.

“Orthodoxie (Islam)” in Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Tübingen, 4th edition, 2003, pp. 712-715 (in German).

“Al-Junayd”, Encyclopedia of Religions, 2d edition; Encyclopedia of Religion, Tompson and Gale, Detroit, New York, Boston, etc., 2005, vol. 7, pp. 5029-5031.

“Ibn ‘Arabi,” Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (ed. By Josef Meri), Routledge, New York and London, submitted to the Editor in December 2004.

Entries for the Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd edition:
“‘Awlaqi”; “[Ba] ‘Alawi, Muhammad b. ‘Ali”; “‘Abd al-Wahid b. Zayd”; “Ahmad b. ‘Asim al-Antaki,’’ “Abu Hashim al-Sufi” have been submitted to the Editorial Board of the 3rd edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI3) in July 2005. Four entries are now in progress.

Book Reviews (English)
Rev. of: R. Gramlich. Das Sendschreiben al-Qušayri’s über das Sufitum. Stuttgart, 1989. In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain (JRAS), vol. 33/2, 386-388.

Rev. of: J. Baldick. Mystical Islam: An Introduction to Sufism. London, Tauris, 1989. In: JRAS, vol. 1/ 2, (1991), 289-292.

Rev.of: R. Gramlich. Schlaglichter über das Sufitum, Stuttgart, 1990. In: JRAS, vol. 2/2 (1992), 270-272.

Rev. of: C. Addas. Ibn ‘Arabi ou la quête du soufre rouge. Gallimard, Paris, 1989. In: Der Islam, Stuttgart–Berlin, vol. 70/2 (1993), 326-329.

Rev. of: W. C. Chittick. The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn ‘Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination. The State University of New York Press, Albany, 1989. In: Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society, vol. 9 (1991), 72-75.

Rev. of: J. D. McAuliffe. Qur’anic Christians: An Analysis of Classical and Modern Exegesis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991. In: JRAS, vol. 3/1 (1993), 112-114.

Rev. of: Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali. The Alchemy of Happiness. Translated by Claud Field. Revised and Annotated by Elton L. Daniel. London, 1990. In: Middle East Journal, vol. 47/1, winter 1993, 151-152.

Rev. of: Adab al-muluk. Ein Handbuch zur Islamischen Mystik aus dem 4./10. Jahrhundert. Ed. by Bernd Radtke. Beirut/Stuttgart, 1991. In: Journal of Semitic Studies, Oxford U.P., vol. 38/2, autumn 1993, 330-332.

Rev. of: Carl W. Ernst. Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center. SUNY Press, N.Y., 1992. In JRAS, vol. 4/1, 1994, 77-81.

Rev. of: J. Baldick. Imaginary Muslims. The Uwaysi Sufis of Central Asia. London and New York, I.B. Tauris, 1993, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, vol. 5/1 (1995), pp. 103-106.

Rev. of: Massignon, Louis. The Passion of al-Hallaj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam, trans. and edited by H. Mason, Princeton University Press, 1994; in Al-Masaq: Studia Arabo-Islamica, Cambridge, vol. 8 (1995), pp. 207-209;

Rev. of: Paul Dresch, Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen, Oxford, 1993, MESA Bulletin, vol. 27 (1994), pp. 43-45;

Rev. of: Esther Peskes, Muhammad B. ‘Abdalwahhab (1703-92) im Wiederstreit, Stuttgart, 1993, MESA Bulletin, vol. 29 (1995), pp. 258-259;

Rev. of: Marietta Stepaniats, Sufi Wisdom, SUNY, Albany, 1994, in The Journal of Religion (Chicago), vol. 75/4 (1995), pp. 606-607;

Rev of : John Renard, All the King’s Falcon’s: Rumi on Prophets and Revelation, SUNY Press, NY, 1994, in JRAS, vol. 7/1 (1997), pp. 123-124;

Rev. of: A. Banani, R. Hovannisian, and G. Sabagh (eds), The Heritage of Rumi, Cambridge University Press, 1994, in ibid., pp. 124-126.

Rev. of: A. G. Ravan Farhadi, ‘Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006-1089 C.E.): An early Sufi master, Curzon Press, 1997, JRAS, vol. 8/2 (1998), pp. 270-271.

Rev. of: Leonard Lewisohn (ed.), The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism, Khaniqahi Publications, London and New York, 1993, in: JRAS, vol. 9/3 (1999), 434-438.

Rev. of: Elizabeth Sirriyeh, Sufis and Anti-Sufis: The Defence, Rethinking and Rejection of Sufism in the Modern World, Curzon Press, Richmond, Surrey, 1999, in: The Middle East Journal, vol. 54/2 (2000), pp. 322-324.

Rev of: G. Rex Smith, Studies in the Medieval History of the Yemen and South Arabia, Variorum, Aldershot, Hampshire, 1997, in JRAS, vol. 10/1 (2000), pp. 102-103.

Rev. of: William Chittick, Self-Revelation of God, SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 1998, JRAS, vol. 11/2 (July 2001), pp.257-260.

Rev. of: Lutz Berger, Geschieden von allem ausser Gott: Sufik und Welt bei Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim-Zuerich-New York, JRAS, vol. 12/1 (April 2002), pp.95-97.

Rev. of: Anna Zelkina, In Quest of God and Freedom: The Sufi response to the Russian advance in the Northern Caucasus, Hurst and Company, London, 2000, JRAS, vol. 12/1 (April 2002), pp. 92-95.

Rev of: Jawid Mojaddedi, The Biographical tradition in Sufism: The tabaqat genre from al-Sulami to Jami, Curzon Press, Richmond, Surrey, 2001; in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, vol. 65/3 (October 2002), 576-578.

Rev of: William Chittick, Sufism: A Short Introduction, Oneworld, Oxford, 2000, in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Washington, D.C. and Birmingham, UK, vol. 13/2 (April 2002), pp. 231-232.

Rev of: Edward Badeen, Zwei mystische Schriften des ‘Ammar al-Bidlisi, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1999; in JRAS, vol. 13/3 (2003), pp. 385-387.

Rev. of: Linda Boxberger, On the Edge of the Empire: Hadhramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s, SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2002, in: MESA Bulletin, vol. 38/2 (December 2004), pp. 236-237.

Rev of: Patricia Crone, Medieval Islamic Political Thought, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004; in Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 48/2 (2005), pp. 333-336.

Rev. of Frederick de Jong and Bernd Radtke (eds.), Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen centuries of controversies and polemics, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1999, submitted to JRAS in April 2005.

Rev. of Babich, Irina and Yarlykapov, Akhmet, Islamskoe vozrozhdenie v sovremennoi Kabardino-Balkari: perspektivy i posledstviia (Islamic Resurgence in Contemporary Kabardino-Balkariia: Prospects and consequences), Moscow, 2003. Forthcoming in Central Eurasian Society Review.

Book Sections (Russian)
“Introduction” and the entry “al-Tirmidhi al-Hakim” in: Islam in the Former Russian Empire: An Encyclopedic Lexicon, Fascicle 1, Moscow, Nauka Publishers, 1998, pp. 7-9 and 91-92.

“Abu Nasr al-Sarraj al-Tusi. The Quintessence of Sufism (Kitab al-luma‘ fi ’l-tasawwuf). Translation from Arabic, introduction and commentary. In: A Chrestomathy of Islam. Ed. by S.M.Prozorov, Moscow, Nauka, 1994, pp.139-166.

“Sufi Studies in Europe and Russia.” In: Islam: Essays on Historiography. Ed. by S.Prozorov, Moscow, Nauka, 1991, 109-209.

“Sufism: A Historical Survey.” In: Islam: history, philosophy and religion (Islam: tarikh, falsafe, ebadetler). Ed. by S. Prozorov and R. Aliev. Baku, Elm, 1994, (in Russian and Azeri), pp. 114-144.

Sections “Sufism” and “Falsafa” in: Introduction to Islamic Studies: A Syllabus for University Students, in Narody Azii i Afriki, Moscow, vol. 5 (1989), 112-116 and 120-122;

Twelve entries on Sufism and Islamic doctrines and rites in: A Lexicon of Islam. Moscow, Politizdat, 1988.

60 contributions on concepts and personalities of Sufism (approximately 90 type-written pages) in: Islam: An Encyclopaedic Lexicon. Ed. by S. M. Prozorov, Moscow, Nauka, 1991.

“Islam in Hadramawt in the Late Middle Ages: The people and the books.” In: Essays on the History and Culture of Hadramawt (South Arabia). Ed. by P. A. Gryaznavich, Moscow, forthcoming.

Articles (Russian)
 “The World-Outlook of Ibn ‘Arabi: Towards the History of Sufi Teachings.” In: Religions of the World, Moscow, Nauka, 1984, 87-95.

“Two Faces of Sufism.” In: Proceedings of the 4th All-Soviet Union Congress of Arabists. Erevan, May 15-17, 1985. Erevan, 1985, 90-92.

“Ibn al-‘Arabi, An Advocate of Sufism,” In Social Movements and Their Ideologies in the Pre-industrial Societies of Asia. Moscow, Institute for Oriental Studies, 1985, 33-36;

“A Hanbali Critique of Sufism (Ibn al-Jawzi’s Talbis Iblis).” In: The Literary Heritage of Eastern Peoples. Pt. 1, Moscow–Leningrad, 1989, 170-175.

“Ibn ‘Arabi’s Teaching and the Later Islamic Tradition.” In: Sufism in the Context of Muslim Culture. Ed. by N. Prygarina. Moscow, Academy Press, 1989, 6-19.

“The Shrines of Hadramawt: Social Aspects of the Cult of Saints.” In: Proceedings of the Soviet-Yemeni Mission. Vol.2, 10 pages, forthcoming in Nauka Press. Moscow;

“The Cult of the Saints and Ideological Struggle in Islam.” In: Traditional Outlook of the Middle Eastern Peoples. Ed. by M. Rodionov, Nauka Press, Moscow, 1992, 34-51 and 201-206.

“History, Sociology and Anthropology of the Arab World: A View from the Left” A Discussion of: Theory, Politics and the Arab World. Ed. by Hisham Sharabi, Routledge, Chapman and Hall Inc., New York and London, 1990, in Vostok (Oriens), Moscow, vol. 1 (1992), 163-175.

“An ABC of the Mystical Path: al-Qushayri’s Risala fi ’l-Tasawwuf.” Translation of, and Commentary on, the Chapter on Sufi terminology.” In: Stupeni. Philosophical Journal (St. Petersburg), vol. 2 /5, 1992, 117-138.

“Ibn ‘Arabi in Contemporary Arabic Literature.” In: Tradition and Innovation: Festschrift for E.A. Bertels. Ed. by N. Prygarina. Nauka Press, Moscow, 1999, pp. 112-139.

Book Reviews (Russian)
Rev.of: J. Baldick. Mystical Islam: An Introduction to Sufism. London, Tauris, 1989. In: Narodi Azii i Afriki (currently Vostok), Moscow, vol. 5 (1990), 193-197.

Rev.of: W. Chittick. The Sufi Path of Knowledge. Ibn ‘Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination. The State University of New York Press, Albany, 1989. In: Narody Azii i Afriki (Vostok), vol. 3 (1991), 165-168.

Articles (Arabic)
“Al-qubab fi Hadramawt” (The Domed Shrines of Hadramawt). In: Hadramawt al-qadima wa ’l-mu‘asira: al-abhath al-maydaniyya li-‘am 1987 (Ancient and Contemporary Hadramawt: Field Research in 1989). Saywun, Ministry of Culture, Hadramawt (PDRY). Pt. 2, 193-204.

“Al-amakin al-muqaddasa wa ’l-ziyarat fi wadi Daw‘an” (Pilgrimage Centers and Annual Pilgrimages in wadi Daw‘an). In: Nata’ij a‘mal al-ba‘tha li-‘am 1988 (Results of the Field Research of the Soviet Yemeni Mission in 1988), Saywun, 1988, 137-143;

“Ba‘d al-mulahazat ‘an al-hayya al-diniyya fi wadi Daw‘an” (Some Notes on the Religious Life of wadi Daw‘an). In: ibid., 192-195;

“Al-qaba’il wa ’l-‘alaqat al-qabaliyya fi wadi ‘Amd” (Tribes and Intertribal Relationships in wadi ‘Amd). In: Nata’ij a‘mal al-ba‘tha li-‘am 1989 (The Results of Field Research of the Soviet-Yemeni Mission in 1989), Saywun, 1989, Pt.2, 147-167.

“Ziyarat adrihat al-awliya’ fi Hadramawt,” in Al-Yaman kama yarah al-akhar, American Institute for Yemeni Studies, Sanaa and Ardmore, PA, 1997, 307-325.

Dissertation
The Main Sources for the Study of Ibn ‘Arabi’s Thought: ‘Fusus al-hikam’ and ‘al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya’,” The Institute for Oriental Studies, Leningrad/St. Petersburg, 1986.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Full Fellow, The Middle East Studies Association of North America

Member, American Institute for Yemeni Studies

Member, American Oriental Society

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