Smirnov, Andrey Vadimovich

He graduated from the Institute of Asian and African countries at Moscow State University (1981). In 1986-1989 he studied at the correspondence graduate school of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; in 1989 he defended his thesis on "Philosophy of Ibn Arabi (1165-1240)", in 1998 - his doctoral dissertation "Procedures for the formation of meaning in medieval Arab-Muslim philosophy."

Since 1988, she has been working at the Institute of Philosophy: since 2008 - the head of the philosophy sector of the Islamic world, since December 22, 2015 - the director of the Institute. Head of the Department of Oriental Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, GAUGN . Academician-Secretary of the Department of Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2017).

In 2010, he participated in the examination of the school course " Fundamentals of religious cultures and secular ethics " ^[1] .

Editor-in-chief of the Philosophical Journal ; Member of the editorial board of publications: “ Questions of Philosophy ”, “ East ”, “ Islamic Studies ”, “ Journal of the Siberian Federal University . Series: Humanities. " It is part of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation (since 2019).

May 16, 2019 by the General Meeting of the Russian Philosophical Society elected president of the RFO.

Monographs

• The great sheikh of Sufism (the experience of a paradigm analysis of the philosophy of Ibn Arabi). - M.: Science (publishing company " Eastern Literature "), 1993.
• Al-Kirmani, Hamid ad-Din. Calming the mind (Rahat al-Akl). Introduction, Arabic translation and commentary. M .: Ladomir , 1995 (review in Bulletin of the SOAS).
• The logic of meaning. Theory and its application to the analysis of classical Arabic philosophy and culture. M .: Languages ​​of Slavic Culture , 2001 (Reviews: Transcendent Philosophy; Spektrum Iran) (English edition)
• Logical and semantic foundations of the Arab-Muslim culture: semiotics and fine art. M .: IFRAN, 2005
• On the approach to comparative study of cultures. SPb .: Publishing House SPbGUP , 2009
• Ibn Arabi. Favorites. T. 2 / Translation from Arabic, introductory article and comments by A. V. Smirnov. - M .: Languages ​​of Slavic culture: LLC "Sadra", 2014
• Consciousness. Logics. Language. The culture. Meaning. M .: Languages ​​of Slavic culture, 2015. - 712 c. - (Studia philosophica). ISBN 978-5-94457-235-6
• Event and things. M.: Sadra: Publishing House YASK, 2017 .-- 232 p. - ISBN 978-5-906859-48-8

Collective monographs

• Russia and the Muslim world: otherness as a problem / Otv. ed. A.V. Smirnov. - M.: Languages ​​of Slavic cultures, 2010 (co-authored)
• History of Arab-Muslim Philosophy: Textbook / Ed. A.V. Smirnova. - M.: Academic Project , 2013. - 255 p. - ISBN 978-5-8291-1463-3 (co-authored)
• History of Arab-Muslim Philosophy: Anthology / Ed. A.V. Smirnova. - M.: Academic Project, 2013. - 267 p. - ISBN 978-5-8291-1464-0 (co-authored)

Articles

• Three solutions to the problem of transcendence and immanence of the divine essence in the philosophy of Ibn Arabi // Rationalist tradition and modernity: the Near and Middle East. - M., Science, 1990, p.206-223.
• The path to Truth: Ibn Arabi and Nikolai Berdyaev (on two types of mystical philosophizing) // Parallels (Russia - East - West). Almanac of philosophical comparative studies, Issue 1. - Philos. Society of the USSR, M., 1991, pp. 109-143; reprinted in: Christians and Muslims: problems of dialogue. Reader (compiled by A. Zhuravsky). M .: BBI, 2000, pp. 424-434, and also in: Stone of Faith: The Spiritual Heritage of Christianity and Islam. No. 1. M., 2011, pp. 175—203
• The mechanisms of sense generation as a key to understanding foreign cultural philosophical traditions. Comparative analysis of European and medieval Arab thought (report summary. Section 30: “Comparative Philosophy”) // XIX World Congress of Philosophy, v.2. 1993.
• The philosophy of Nicholas of Cusa and Ibn Arabi: two types of rationalization of mysticism // God, man, society in the traditional cultures of the East. - M .: Nauka, 1993, p. 156-175.
• Christian motives in religious-philosophical concepts of Sufism and Ismailism // Islam and problems of inter-civilization interactions. M., 1994, pp. 268-278, and also in the journal Vostok , No. 6, 1993, pp. 12-18.
• The dialogue between a Buddhist and a Sufi about what is Truth (co-authored with A. A. Nakorchevsky) // Historical and Philosophical Yearbook 1992. - M .: Nauka, 1994, p.182-199.
• To the question of the peculiarities of the Arab semiotic theory // Non-verbal field of culture. Materials of the scientific conference "Nonverbal Communications in Culture". M .: RGGU, 1995, p.149-150.
• Is there a "world philosophy", or the problem of overcoming the alien stranger // Historical and Philosophical Yearbook 1994. - M .: Nauka, 1995, p. 352-360; reprinted in: Philosophy of Philosophy. Texts of Philosophy: Textbook for High Schools / Ed. V. Kuznetsov . M .: Academic project; Peace Foundation, 2012, p. 202-211.
• Al-Ash'ari, Abu al-Hasan. “What did the people of Islam talk about and what did the people who prayed parted with” (passages). Translation from Arabic // M. T. Stepanyants . Eastern philosophy: introductory course. Selected Texts. 1st ed. M., Publishing company "Oriental literature" RAS, 1997, S. 365-384.
• What is behind the term “medieval Arab philosophy” (consideration of the issue from the perspective of the problems of truth and causality) // Medieval Arab philosophy: problems and solutions. M., Oriental literature, 1998, p. 42-81
• Is interpretation of the Universe possible as a linguistic phenomenon? Saadia Gaon and his “Commentary on the“ Book of Creation ”” (Historical and Philosophical Yearbook-1997. M., Nauka, 1999, pp. 283-307)
• The formation of Muslim doctrinal thought and early Islamic philosophy (on the issue of mutual influence on the example of al-Fiqh al-'akbar pseudo-Abu Hanifa). Introduction, translation from Arabic. and comments // Bulletin of the Russian State Humanitarian University. Vol. 4. East: Research. Translations. M.: Russian State Humanitarian University, 2000, p. 52-86
• Imitations of Oriental poets: a meeting of Russian poetry and Arab-Persian poetics (co-authored with N. Yu. Chalisova) // Comparative Philosophy. M., ed. Vost. company of literature ”, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000, p.245-344
• The moral nature of man: the Arab-Muslim tradition // Ethical thought: Yearbook. M .: Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000, pp. 46-70. Reprinted in: Ethical Thought: Modern Research. M .: Progress-Tradition, 2009, pp. 177-202
• The philosophical search of al-Suhrawardi // Islamic culture in world civilization and new ideas in philosophy. SPb: Publishing House of St. Petersburg. Univ., 2001, p. 94-106; the article is reprinted in the publication: Works on cultural anthropology (in memory of G. A. Tkachenko). M .: Publishing company "Eastern Literature" RAS, Publishing House "Ant", 2002, S. 411-421
• Nominality and content: why a non-critical study of the “universals of culture” threatens with error // Universals of oriental cultures. M .: Publishing. Vost. company of literature "RAS, 2001, p.290-317
• Is it possible to understand Jewish philosophy as a single tradition? (Instead of an afterword) // R. Jospe. What is Jewish philosophy? Jerusalem-M.: Gesharim-Bridges of Culture, 2003, p. 118-125
• Logical grounds - a measure of otherness? // Case: Individual and unique in history, 2003. M.: OGI, 2003, pp. 525-539
• Book Review: Al-Shirazi, Sadr ad-Din (Mullah Sadra). Throne wisdom / Transl. with arab., foreword and note. J. Eshots. M .: Publishing. East Literature firm, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004 // Bulletin of the Russian Philosophical Society, No. 2 (30) 2004, M., 2004, p. 78-79
• On the concept of "freedom" in the Arab-Muslim culture // Historical and Philosophical Yearbook-2003. M .: Nauka, 2004, pp. 393-399
• Dualism and monism: the difference and similarity of the two versions of Sufi ethics // Comparative philosophy: Moral philosophy in the context of cultural diversity. M .: Publishing. Vost. company of literature ”, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2004, pp. 243–251
• “Tolerance” or “permissiveness”: complementarity of content and logic of constructing a concept // Odysseus. The man in history . 2004 / Ch. ed. A. Ya. Gurevich . M .: Nauka, 2004, pp. 205-225
• Muslim Ethics as a System // Ethical Thought. Vol. 6 / Ed. A. A. Huseynov. M.: IF RAS, 2005, pp. 51–75.
• La Filosofia Mistica e la ricerca della Verita / Pres. et trad. Alberto De Luca. Roma: Simmetria, 2005.
• The History of Classical Arabian Philosophy // Bulletin of the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation 2006, No. 1 (42). M., 2006, pp. 106-113
• Book Review: Salman H. Bashier. Ibn al-'Arabī's Barzakh. The Concept of the Limit and the Relationship between God and the World. Albany: SUNY Press, 2004 // Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society. Oxford: Vol. XL, 2006, p. 120-125
• The foundations of rationality in different cultures // Actual problems of the present through the prism of philosophy: Collection of reports. Issue 1 / Ans. ed. S.V. Devyatkin; NovSU named after Yaroslav the Wise. - Veliky Novgorod, 2007, pp. 131-161.
• Logical-semantic approach in comparative philosophy (Speech at the Novgorod State University named after Y. Mudry, November 2006)
• “Good” and “evil” in Islamic tradition and philosophy (to pose the question). Selected Texts // Ethical Thought. Issue 8 / Ans. ed. A. A. Huseynov. M .: IFRAN, 2008, pp. 154-193
• Ibn Khaldun. Introduction (al Mukaddima) / compiled., Per. with arab. and note. A. V. Smirnova // Historical and Philosophical Yearbook 2007. M: Nauka, 2008, pp. 187–217
• Culturological comparative studies in the works of G. A. Tkachenko // Grigory Tkachenko. Selected Works: Chinese Cosmology and Anthropology. M.: RAO Talking Book, 2008, p. Xxii-xxvi
• The logical foundations of the philosophy of the time of the mutazilites // Philosophical Journal. No. 2 (3) / 2009, pp. 132-163 (co-authored with A. M. Anisov)
• Is the universality of philosophical reason a stereotype? // Philosophy in the dialogue of cultures: materials of World Philosophy Day. M .: Progress-Tradition, 2010, pp. 96-101
• Christian motifs in the pattern of Islamic thought: Ibn Arabi and al-Kirmani // Symbol. Paris-Moscow. No. 58 (2010). p. 104-126
• Shihab ad-Din Yahya as-Suhrawardi. The Wisdom of Illumination (passage). Translation from Arabic and comments by A. V. Smirnov // Ishrak: Yearbook of Islamic Philosophy. No. 2. - M .: "Publishing company" Oriental literature "RAS, 2011, pp. 28-46
• The path to truth: Ibn Arabi and Nikolai Berdyaev // Stone of faith: The spiritual heritage of Christianity and Islam. No. 1. M., 2011, pp. 175—203
• Ibn 'Arabi. Gems of wisdom. Chapter 1 (passage). Translation from Arabic and commentary by A. V. Smirnov // Ishrak: Yearbook of Islamic Philosophy. No. 3. M.: East. lit., 2012, pp. 62-76
• Work on mistakes: how to explain T. Ibrahim's hermeneutic failure? // Ishraq: Yearbook of Islamic Philosophy. No. 3. M.: East. lit., 2012, pp. 601-634
• How can we talk about the logics of thinking of different cultures? (Afterword to the article by Guo Xiaoli) // Philosophical Journal. No. 1 (8), 2012. M.: IF RAS, 2012, pp. 98-102
• Hamid ad-Din al-Kirmani. Calming the mind (passages) / per. with arab and comment. A.V. Smirnova // Ishraq: Yearbook of Islamic Philosophy: 2013. No. 4 = Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook: 2013. No. 4. - M.: East. lit., 2013, pp. 219–261
• The architectonics of consciousness and the architectonics of the text (instead of an introduction to the “Instructions to the seeker of God”) // Ibn Arabi. Favorites. T. 2. M.: Languages ​​of Slavic culture: LLC "Sadra", 2014, pp. 339-345
• Ibn Arabi. [Instructions to the seeker of God.] Meccan revelations, vol. 4. Introduction, translation from Arabic and comments by A. V. Smirnov // Ibn Arabi. Favorites. T. 2. M.: Languages ​​of Slavic culture: LLC "Sadra", 2014, pp. 346–398
• Deceptive similarity of borrowings: history of ideas and semantic logic // History of philosophy: challenges of the XXI century / Otv. ed. N.V. Motroshilova. M .: "Canon +" ROOI "Rehabilitation", 2014, S. 246-250; Philosophy and challenges of the XXI century // History of philosophy: challenges of the XXI century / Otv. ed. N.V. Motroshilova. M .: "Canon +" ROOI "Rehabilitation", 2014, S. 295-302
• Classical Islam and modern Dagestan: how to read the Islamic heritage today // Problems of Russian self-consciousness: historical memory of the people. Moscow-Makhachkala: Delta Press Publishing House, 2015. P. 43-53
• Classical Arab-Muslim ethical thought // History of ethical teachings: Textbook for universities / Ed. A. A. Huseynova. - M .: Academic project; Triksta, 2015.P. 193-290
• Proposition and Prediction // Philosophical Journal 2016. V. 9. No. 1. P. 5-24
• “Sense” and “form”: two ways of transcendence (O. Pamuk and classical Arab-Muslim epistemology) // Problems of Philosophy. 2016. No. 4. P. 28-41
• Epistem of classical Arab-Muslim culture // Ya evaṃ veda ... Who knows ... In memory of Vladimir Nikolaevich Romanov. M .: RGGU, 2016.S. 299—323
• Will an Islamic civilization project be implemented today? // Modern global challenges and national interests: XVI International Likhachev Scientific Readings, May 19-21, 2016 St. Petersburg. : SPbGUP, 2016.S. 229-232.
• The logic of comprehension by parents of preventive vaccinations // Medical Psychology in Russia: electron. scientific journal - 2017. - T. 9, No. 5 (46) [Electronic resource]. - URL: http://www.mprj.ru/archiv_global/2017_5_46/nomer02.php (co-authored with V.K. Solondaev)
• The open all-unity of our philosophy // Questions of philosophy. 2017. No. 7. P. 114—118, in the framework of the discussion of the project “Anatomy of Philosophy”
• The collective cognitive unconscious and its functions in logic, language and culture // Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 2017. Vol. 87. No. 10. P. 867-878. DOI: 10.7868 / S0869587317100012
• Islam and national-cultural identity // Adam ǝlemi: Philosophical and social-humanitarian journal. [Alma-Ata]: Institute of Philosophy, Political Science and Religious Science 2016. No. 4 (70). S. 75-82
• The project of a multi-civilization world as the basis of the idea of ​​multipolarity: the concept of the universal today // National Philosophy in the Global World: theses of the First Belarusian Philosophical Congress. Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka, 2017. P. 350—352
• Translation as making meanings: a few words about the title of “History” by Ibn Khaldun // Ishrak: Yearbook of Islamic Philosophy: 2017. No. 8. M .: Vost. lit., 2017.S. 179-209.
• On the formalization of conclusions in procedural logic. Part I // Philosophical Journal. 2017.V. 10. No. 4. P. 72-92. DOI: 10.21146 / 2072-0726-2017-10-4-72-92
• On the formalization of conclusions in procedural logic. Part II // Philosophical Journal. 2018.Vol. 11. No. 1. S. 5-27. DOI: 10.21146 / 2072-0726-2018-11-1-5-27

Study guides

• History of Arab-Muslim Philosophy: Textbook / Ed. A.V. Smirnova. - M.: Academic Project, 2013. - 255 p. - ISBN 978-5-8291-1463-3 (co-authored)
• History of Arab-Muslim Philosophy: Anthology / Ed. A.V. Smirnova. - M.: Academic Project, 2013. - 267 p. - ISBN 978-5-8291-1464-0 (co-authored)
• Special course "History of medieval Arab philosophy." Topics // History of Philosophy. The program of in-depth study (for students, graduate students, teachers) / Ed. N.V. Motroshilova , I.A. Mikhailov, E. Yu. Soloviev . M .: "Phenomenology-Hermeneutics", 2002, p. 48-50
• Classical Arab-Muslim ethical thought // History of ethical teachings / Ed. A. A. Huseynov. M .: Garadariki, 2003, pp. 204-309; Second Edition: A History of Ethical Doctrines: A Textbook for High Schools / Ed. A. A. Huseynova. - M .: Academic project; Triksta, 2015.S. 193-290 (PDF)
• Arab-Muslim Philosophy: Curriculum / comp. A.V. Smirnov; NovSU named after Yaroslav the Wise. - Veliky Novgorod, 2009.

• Miliband S. D. Orientalists of Russia: a bio-bibliographic dictionary. - T. II. - M .: Eastern literature. - 2008 .-- S. 368-369.

• Profile of Andrei Vadimovich Smirnov on the official website of the RAS
• Page on the IFAN website
• Page on the website of RSUH
• Personal page
• Historical background on the website of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• List of publications on the IFAN website