Author

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include Turkology, Oriental archaeography, the history of Islam, the Golden Horde and the Tatar states. He is the author of several books ("The Astrakhan Khanate", "The Crimean Historiographical Tradition of the XV–XIX centuries", etc.), as well as many articles and research catalogs on the history of Islamic handwritten books ("Arabic, Persian and Turkic manuscripts of the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts of the Scientific Library of Moscow State University", "Arabic and Turkic manuscripts and Documents The State Public Scientific and Technical Library in Novosibirsk", etc.).