Maxim Alontsev
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Humanities / Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
- Programme Academic Supervisor: Classical and Modern Orient: Languages, Cultures, Religions
- Maxim Alontsev has been at HSE University since 2017.
Education and Degrees
Russian State University for the Humanities, Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies
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.
Continuing education / Professional retraining / Internships / Study abroad experience
2010, February: Persian Language and Literature Refresher Course for the students, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2018, January-February: Persian Language and Literature Refresher Course for Persian Language teachers, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran
2022, July: Erasmus+ Interntaional Credit Mobility Staff Training, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2024, 2020–2022
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2023, 2022
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "New Lecturers" (2024)
Courses (2024/2025)
- Classical Islam (Minor; Faculty of Humanities)Rus
- Concepts and practices of the legitimation of authority in Iran (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 2 module)Rus
- Concepts and practices of the legitimation of authority in Iran (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
- Global Islam (Minor; Faculty of Humanities)Eng
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Mentor’s Seminar The Muslim world and the Persianate societies in premodern and early modern periods: concepts and problems (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Religious Systems of Iran (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 4 module)Rus
- Research seminar "Classical Islamic sources and Arabic-scripted traditions in Russia" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sufism and Islamic sainthood: history, society, politics (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Sufism and Islamic sainthood: history, society, politics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Ancient Iran (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 4 module)Rus
- Classical Islam (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- History and Culture of Iran (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Mentor’s Seminar The Muslim world and the Persianate societies in premodern and early modern periods: concepts and problems (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Of Prophets, Clerics and Holy Fools: Religion in Ancient and Medieval Iran (Optional course (faculty); 3 module)Eng
- Political Islam (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research seminar "Classical Islamic sources and Arabic-scripted traditions in Russia" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sufism and Islamic sainthood: history, society, politics (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Sufism and Islamic sainthood: history, society, politics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
- Tradition and modernity in the XIX-XX cc. Islamic thought (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Tradition and modernity in the XIX-XX cc. Islamic thought (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Ancient Persia (Optional course (faculty); 3 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research seminar "Classical Islamic sources and Arabic-scripted traditions in Russia" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1-3 module)Rus
- Sufism and Islamic sainthood: history, society, politics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
- Sufism and Islamic sainthood: history, society, politics (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Ancient Persia (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Arabic-Islamic Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Arabic-Islamic Philosophy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to Islamic Studies (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 4 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to Islamic Studies (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research seminar "Classical Islamic sources and Arabic-scripted traditions in Russia" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sufism and Islamic sainthood: history, society, politics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Ancient Persia (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 4 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Introduction to the History and Culture of the East: selected chapters (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Iranian cultural continent: History, geography, civilization (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Islam (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Religious Systems of Iran (Minor; Faculty of Humanities; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Medieval Iran: Society and State in Persian Narrative and Documentary Sourses" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2019
«Память и идентичность – II. Кто пишет историю: особенности формирования исторического нарратива» (Москва). Presentation: "День, когда Махди убьёт Даджжаля": репрезентация праздника Ноуруз в современном Иране
Первый Международный Конгресс Евразийской Ассоциации иранистов (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: “Сорок две тысячи гебров порвали зуннары”: о суфиях и иноверцах в ранней персидской агиографии
IX Ежегодная конференция «Письменные памятники Востока: Проблемы перевода и интерпретации» (Москва). Presentation: «В эту эпоху пророк был бы из их числа»: движение маламатиййа в «Поминании друзей Божиих» Фарид ад-дин ʻАттара
История и культура ислама. Россия и исламский мир (Москва). Presentation: «Его путь – это путь трезвости»: понятия «опьянение» и «трезвость» в «Поминании друзей Божиих» Фарид ад-дина ‘Аттара
- 2018
Культура и политика в истории Ирана (Москва). Presentation: Коцепт vilāyat как метод легитимации мистического движения (на примере средневековых арабских и персидских текстов)
- 2017
Азия и Африка: наследие и современность. XXIX Международный конгресс по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Источники антологии «Поминание друзей Божиих» Фарид ад-дина ʻАттара и методы авторской работы с ними
Классические тексты Востока: от традиционных интерпретаций к современным методам изучения. Presentation: «Обладатели счастья» vs «Чужие и непосвященные»: о системе персонажей суфийского жития
- 2016
Восточные чтения. Религии. Культуры. Литературы (Памяти Н.И.Никулина) (Москва). Presentation: «Прямая» и «косвенная» апологетика в суфийской агиографии (на примере произведения Фарид ад-дина ʻАттара «Поминания друзей Божиих»)
Иранистика в Евразии: прошлое, настоящее, будущее. Presentation: Функции географических ориентиров в суфийском житии
- 2015
XXVIII Международная научная конференция по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки "Азия и Африка в меняющемся мире" (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Апологетические аспекты жития Джа‘фара Садика в сочинении Фарид ад-дина ‘Аттара «Поминания друзей Божьих»
- 2014
III Международная научная конференция «Мир Ислама: история, общество, культура» (Москва). Presentation: Perception of Mansur Hallaj’s Heritage in the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Concept of iltibas in Ruzbihan Baqli’s Works