Contents Vol.11 No. 2

TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH

A. Alekseev. Mahmud b. Amir Wali and his Bahr al-asrar

TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION

A. Kudelin. Arabic Literature: Poetics and Stylistics. V: a Romantic Epoc about Majnum and its Arabic Roots

M. Reisner. The Life of the Text and the Fate of Tradition. VI: Birds in Mystical-Symbolic qasidas by Sana i and Khaqani

(12th century) (to the Problem of Formation of the Symbolic Language in the Classical Persian Qasida)

PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT

D. Ivanov. Buddhist Collections of the St. Petersburg Kunstkamera: Icons from N. V. Kirilov's Collection

E. Revunenkova. Batak Priests' Books in the MAE Collection. I

Masanori Kaji. Nicholas of Russia Travels to the East. II: Japanese Granddaughter of Dmitrii Mendeleev

OUR ARCHIVE

A. Reshetov. About the Fate of a Present from Dalai Lama to the Academician S. F. Oldenburg