Ilya Pavlovich Petrushevsky russian:
Илья́ Па́влович Петруше́вский; (10
2June 1898 – 18 March 1977) was a
Soviet
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Orientalist, Honored Scientist of the USSR. Doctor of Historical Sciences, and Professor.
Biography
In 1926 Petrushevsky graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of
Kharkiv
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Universities. From 1926 to 1931 he worked in
Baku
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. In 1931, under the leadership of
P. K. Zhoze and
Yu. N. Marr, he studied
Arabic
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and
Persian
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languages at the
Institute of the Caucasus Studies of the
USSR Academy of Sciences in
Tbilisi
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. From 1933 to 1936 he taught at the
University of Tbilisi where he completed his Candidate of Historical Sciences in 1935. From 1936 to 1941, he worked at the Leningrad branch of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and taught at the regional pedagogical institute. For his Doctor of Historical Sciences (1941), he wrote his doctoral dissertation, "Essays on the history of feudal relations in Azerbaijan and Armenia in the 16th to early 19th century." During the
Great Patriotic War
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, he taught in Baku and
Tashkent
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. From 1945 to 1947 he worked at the Leningrad branch of the
and became a Professor at Leningrad University in 1947. From 1950 to 1954 and 1961 to 1977 he headed the Department of History of the Middle East countries of the Eastern Faculty. From 1956 to 1959 he led the Iranian Group of the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (from November 1957 it was renamed the Iranian Cabinet).
Petrushevsky's main areas of scientific interest included the history of agriculture and feudal relations in the Near and Middle East, the history of popular movements in medieval Iran, relations between nomadic and sedentary populations, and the history of Islam. The works of I. P. Petrushevsky are in demand in the world of Orientalism, some of them have been translated into Persian and English. In total, he published more than 90 works.
Petrushevsky died in 1977 and was buried at
Serafimovskoe Cemetery in Leningrad.
Works
*
The Cambridge History of Iran
*Islam in Iran in the VII — XV centuries
External links
*http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/140734/
*https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-iran/D0BEE51C0C239F497ADBC0CA18796A5B
References
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Russian orientalists
Soviet orientalists
Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Soviet historians
1898 births
1977 deaths
Burials at Serafimovskoe Cemetery