Alexey Muraviev
- Visiting Lecturer: Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs / School of Asian Studies
- Alexey Muraviev has been at HSE University since 2024.
- Language Proficiency
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Arabic
- Аncient Greek
- Spanish
- Georgian
- Syriac
- Contacts
- Phone:
+7 (495) 772-9590
23804 - Address: 21/4 Staraya Basmannaya Ulitsa, Building 1, room А221
- SPIN-RSCI: 4950-6516
- ORCID: 0000-0002-2359-5567
- ResearcherID: K-9036-2015
- Google Scholar
- Office hours
- Tue 10.30-15.00 We 11.00-15.00 Fri 15.00-17.00
- Supervisor
- A. B. Kamenskii
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Responsibilities
Member of the Academic Council of the Faculty of Humanities
Head of the Study-and-research Unit ' History and people ofthe medieval Caucasia'
Education and Degrees
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Philology
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
École Française de Rome, 1993
Centre National de la Recherche scientifique, Paris, 1995-1996, 1998
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, 1999-2001, 2010
Istitute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Study 2003-2004
Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia, 2013
Postgraduate Studies
Doctoral student at the Institute for World History, Russian Academy of sciences (1992-1995)
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2024, 2018
Courses (2024/2025)
- History of Asian and African Civilizations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Religious and Philosophical Traditions of the Studied Region (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Christian Culture(s) of the Middle East and Central Asia (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Christian East and the Rise of Islam (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Christian East and the Rise of Islam (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Rus
- History of Asian and African Civilizations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar «Scholarly Text in Medieval Studies» (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Religious and Philosophical Traditions of the Studied Region (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Christian East and the Rise of Islam (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
- Christian East and the Rise of Islam (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Culture and Art of Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- History of Asian and African Civilizations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar «Scholarly Text in Medieval Studies» (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Society and Religion in the East (Minor; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Ancient Greek (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Christian East and the Rise of Islam (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Culture and Art of Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- History of Asian and African Civilizations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- History of the Region of Specialization (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- History of the Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 3 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- History of the Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Literature of the Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Religious and Philosophical Traditions of the Studied Region (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Ancient Greek (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 2 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Christian East and the Rise of Islam (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study History; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Culture and Art of Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- History of Asian and African Civilizations (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
- Literature of the Region of Specialization (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Religious and Philosophical Traditions of the Studied Region (Middle East) (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Main Directions of Socio-Political, Economic and Historico-Cultural Processes in the East" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs field of study Asian and African Studies; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Editorial board membership
Conferences
- 2022
2022 Annual Conference of the European Academy of Religion (Болонья). Presentation: The Old Believer Church and its experience of a non-state religious body in the pre-revolutionary Russia. The model of Bp. Arseny of Uralsk in the panel Russian Old Believers: the conflict over faith and identity
13e Symposium Syriacum et 11e Congrès d'Etudes Arabes Chrétiennes (Париж). Presentation: The impossible translatio reliquium of Persian martyr St Dadu and his compagnons (BHO 240)
24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies (Венеция, Падуя). Presentation: Those Perfidious barbarians: Arabs and Goths in the 5-6th c. Wars on the Eastern frontier
I Международная научная конференция «Цивилизации Востока: взгляд из XXI века» (Москва). Presentation: Определяя "средневековье" на Востоке: в поисках структурной модели
- 2021
Классическая филология в контексте мировой культуры - XIV (Москва). Presentation: Значение грузинского перевода Георгия Амартола (Монаха) для реконструкции «Хроники»
Saint Grigol Peradze 2nd International Scientific Conference Dedicated to the 900th Anniversary of the Battle of Didgori (Тбилиси). Presentation: Some Syriac penetential themes in the ‘ Galobani sinanulisani’ of St David the Builder and the tradition of the Shio-mghvime
2021 ASEEES Virtual Convention (Нью-Орлеан). Presentation: Beyond The Icon and the Axe: Protopope Avvakum, Pierre Pascal, and Western Reimagining of Old Belief
- 2019
Готы в сравнении: восточногерманские сообщества между Балтикой, Черным морем и Западом. Presentation: “Deceitful Gothic bigamist: a ‘travel temporary marriage’ Avant la lettre in the Syriac 4th c. text”
Лицо в средневековой культуре Востока и Запада (Санкт-Петербург ). Presentation: Face of the Sinner and Face of the Just: Ascetical Physiognomy in Eastern Syriac Mysticism
The Second International Conference of Aramaic and Syriac Studies in Egypt (Каир). Presentation: Encounter of Basil and Ephrem in the Old Arabic version: in search of the Syriac witness
- 2018
Novel Saints. Novel, Hagiography and Romance from the 4th to the 12th Century. Presentation: Literary Antecedents of the so-called Syria Julian Romance
- 2017
XVII Ежегодная богословская конференция ПСТГУ (Москва). Presentation: Арабы-христиане в историографии ранней арабской поэзии: wishful thinking Луиса Шайхо или историческая реальность
Religious Encounters between the Mediterranian and the Indian Ocean (Бохум). Presentation: The Image of Jews in the Early Syriac Hagiography
Eastern Christianity, Reformations and Revolutions (Цинциннати). Presentation: Eastern Syriac Christians facing the Arab Conquest: New and Old Tactics
- 2016
Наследие Аристотеля как конституирующий элемент европейской рациональности (Москва). Presentation: Проблема влияния аристотелизма в восточно-христианской традиции
III Круглый стол «Центры и периферия древних цивилизаций Востока и Запада: сферы, формы и результаты взаимодействия (IV/III тыс. до н.э. – I тыс. н.э.)» (Москва). Presentation: Сирийский «Роман о Юлиане» и Египет: проблема происхождения и жанровая специфика коптской литературы
Leibniz-Projekt „Polyphonie des spätantiken Christentums“ (Франкфурт-на-Майне). Presentation: Syriac exiled hermits of Amida and the dossier of ‘Asorel mamebi’: affinities and discrepancies (in search of the background for the Syriac inluences in 6th c. Kartli)
Коллоквиум «Sol Invictus». Горизонты возможного: иудаизм, христианство, ислам в Восточном Средиземноморье (Москва). Presentation: Христиане Востока и круг Бейт ал-Хикма: точки взаимодействия
- 2015
XXV Ежегодная богословская конференция ПСТГУ (Москва). Presentation: Куста ибн Лука ал-Балбакки и его трактат «Китаб ал-фарк байна-л-рух уа н-нафс»: между медициной и философией
Philosop[hy and Medicine in the Byzantine and the Arabic0Islamic World (600-1150) (Лозанна ). Presentation: The Syriac Medical Tradition and Nemesius of Emessa
2015 Dunhuang Forum: International Conference on Dunhuang and Sino-Foreign Relations (Dunhuang). Presentation: The unknown Syriac author in the Turfan manuscript
Dissertation for a degree of Doctor of Science
- 2021
A. Muraviev Западные сирийцы и сложение Христианского Востока в VI веке