Vladimir Alekseevich Ivanow (; November 3, 1886 – June 19, 1970) was a Russian orientalist. He was a scholar of

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, with a particular focus on

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. He graduated in 1907 and joined the faculty of Oriental Languages of the University of St. Petersburg. Vladimir Ivanow is a founding father of modern

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studies and one of the most authoritative scholars in the subject. He is a doctoral advisor of

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, the most authoritative scholar of the subject in the modern world.

Bibliography

* * * * (Second Amplified Edition of "A Guide to Ismaili Literature") *''Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal'', Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) Library, Wladimir Ivanow, revised by M. Hidayat Hosain. Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, (1939), 689 pages, 2 vols., 221 pages. *''The Gabri Dialect Spoken by the Zoroastrians of Persia'' (1940) *''Ismaili tradition concerning the rise of the Fatimids'' (1942). Volume 10 of the Islamic Research Association Series, Oxford Univ. Pr. in Komm., 450 pages . *'' Ibn-al-Qaddah: (The Alleged Founder of Ismailism)'' (1946). The Ismaili Foundation, 2nd. edition, (1957), 169 pages, *''On the Recognition of the Imam: Or Fasl Dar Bayan-i Shinakht-i Imam'' (1947) *''Nāṣir-i Khusraw and Ismailism'' (1948). *''Studies in early Persian Ismailism''. E.J. Brill, (1948) - 202 pages * ''Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī'' (translation) *''Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal'' (1951), with M. Hidayat Hosain, M. Mahfuz-ul-Haq, M. Ishaque . *''Studies in early Persian Ismailism'', 2nd ed. (1955) *''Problems in Nasir-i Khusraw's Biography'' (1956)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivanow, Vladimir Alexeyevich 1886 births 1970 deaths White Russian emigrants to Iran Writers from Saint Petersburg Russian orientalists Iranian people of Russian descent Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Iran Ismailism Scholars of Shia Islam