CONTENTS of Vol.5 No.1

EDITORIAL BOARD

Lives Devoted to Learning

TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH

Val.Polosin. "All is Numbers"? An Unknown Numerical Component in the Design of Medieval Arabic

MANNUSCRIPTS

O.Scheglova. Lithograph Versions of Persian Manuscripts of Indian Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century

T.Sultanov. Authors and Authorship in Persian and Turkic Historical Writings

E.Vasilyeva. The First Persian, French and Russian Editions of the Sharaf-nama

TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION

E.Rezvan. The Qur'an and Its World: VIII/2. West-Ostlichen Divans (the Qur'an in Russia)

PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT

A.Khalidov. An Arabic Composite Manuscript of Tales from the Collection of the St.Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies

BOOK REVIEWS