Gordiy Semionovich Sablukov (1804–1880) was a

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expert on

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. With Dimitriy Boguslavsky he was responsible for the first

translation of the

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from Arabic into Russian.Petrosyan, 1996

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sablukov, Gordiy 1804 births 1880 deaths Translators of the Quran into Russian Russian Arabists Historians of Islam Russian orientalists Historians from the Russian Empire Male writers from the Russian Empire 19th-century translators 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire