Natalia Efremova

Year and Place of Birth

Born in 1956, Moscow, Russia

Education

• 1975-1980 Historical Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
• 1985-1987- Ph.D Postgraduate Studies, Specialization “History of Philosophy”, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Academic Degrees

• Ph.D. in Philosophy (1987).
• 1989-1991 – Awarded 1,5 years of postgraduate studies at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland).

Field of Studies

• History of Arab-Muslim Philosophy. 

• 1980 – till 2021 Research Fellow, then Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Oriental Philosophies, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• 2000- till now Lecturer at the Russian State Academic University (Philosophical and Political Sciences Faculties), Moscow
• 2010 – till now Lecturer at the UNESCO chair “Dialogue of Cultures”, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Tutorials

2017

• Hrestomatiya ‘Filosofskaya mysl' klassicheskogo islama’ [Reader ‘Philosophical Thought of Classic Islam’.] SPb: SPb GU, Vostochnyy fakul'tet (in collaboration with T.K. Ibragim).
• Hrestomatiya ‘Svyaschennaya istoriya soglasno Koranu’. CH.I: ‘Ot Sotvoreniya mira do Iskhoda’ [Reader: ‘Sacred History According to the Koran’. Part I: ‘From Creation to Exodus’.] SPb: SPb GU, Vostochnyy fakul'tet (in collaboration with T.K. Ibragim).

2015

• “Musul'manskaya tsivilizatsiya [Muslim Civilization].” Dialog kul'tur. Uchebno-metodicheskoe posobie dlya 9-10 klassov negosudarstvennyh obscheobrazovatel'nyh uchrezhdeniy OAO ‘RZHD’ [Dialogue of Cultures. Manual for 9-10 Classes of Non-State Educational Institutions of JSC "RZD"]. M.T. Stepnyants ed. M.: FGBOU “Uchebno-metodicheskiy tsentr po obrazovaniyu na zheleznodorozhnom transporte”, 2015: 138-197.

2014

• Musul'manskaya religioznaya filosofiya. Fal'safa. Uchebnoe posobie [Muslim Religious Philosophy. Falsafa. Tutorial]. Kazan': Izdatel’stvo Kazanskogo universiteta, 2014. 236 p. ISBN 978-5-00019-234-4 (in collaboration with T.K. Ibragim).
• Musul'manskaya tsivilizatsiya. Hrestomatiya po razdelu “Musul'manskaya tsivilizatsiya [Muslim Civilization. Reader in the Section ‘Muslim Civilization’].” Kniga uchitelya. Dialog kul'tur. Uchebno-metodicheskoe posobie i hrestomatiya [A Teacher's Book. Dialogue of Cultures. Manual and Reader]. M.: FGBOU “Uchebno-metodicheskiy tsentr po obrazovaniyu na zheleznodorozhnom transporte,” 2014: 179-260.

2013

• “Musul'manskaya tsivilizatsiya [Muslim Civilization].” Dialog kul'tur. Programma uchebnogo kursa [Dialogue of Cultures. Curriculum]. Moscow: FGBOU “Uchebno-metodicheskiy tsentr po obrazovaniyu na zheleznodorozhnom transporte,” 2013: 67-87.

Books:

2015

• Islam: filosofiya, religiya, kul'tura. Teologo-filosofskaya mysl' [Islam: Philosophy, Religion, Culture. Theological-Philosophical Thought]. Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2015. 183 p. 

• Svyaschennaya istoriya soglasno Koranu [Sacred History According to the Koran]. Moscow: EKSMO, 2012. 528 p. ISBN: 978-5-699-53192-9.
• Svyaschennaya istoriya soglasno Koranu. Doislamskie drevnosti [Sacred History According to the Koran. The Pre-Islamic Antiquities]. Moscow-Nizhniy Novgorod: ID Medina, 2012. 567 p. ISBN: 978-5-9756-0058 (in collaboration with T.K. Ibragim).

• Zhizn proroka Mukhammada [The Life of prophet Muhammad]. Moscow: Ladomir, 2010 (in collaboration).

• Musul'manskaya filosofiya. Fal'safa. Antologiya [Muslim philosophy. Falsafa. Anthology.] Kazan': DUM RT, 2009.

• Putevoditel' po Koranu [Guide to Koran]. Moscow: Dumtser, 1998 (in collaboration).

• Musul'manskaya svyaschennaya istoriya [Muslim Sacred History]. Moscow: Ladomir, 1996 (in collaboration).

Papers:

2020

• “Islamizaciya aristotelizma v metafizike Ibn-Siny [The Islamization of Aristotelism in the Metaphysics of Ibn Sina].” Vestnik Rossijskogo universiteta druzhby narodov. Ceriya: Filosofiya [RUDN University Bulletin, series ‘Philosophy’] 24 (1)(2020): 39–54.

• “Obavicennovskoj reforme «Metafiziki» Aristotelya: bazisnye orientiry [On Avicennian Reform of Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Basic Attitudes].” Orientalistica 2(3)(2019): 615–633.
• “Ob avicennovskoj reforme «Metafiziki» Aristotelya: chto takoe metafizika? [On Avicennian Reform of Aristotle’s Metaphysics: Basic Attitudes].” Orientalistica 2(4)(2019): 927–953.

• “Ali Abdarrazik kak rodonachal'nik sekulyarizma v islame. Chast' I [‘Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq as a Father of Islamic Secularism. Part One].” Islam v sovremennom mire [Islam in the Modern World] 14(3)(2018);:93–114.
• “O kritike Ibn-Rushdom asharitskogo kalama [On Ibn Rushd’s Critics of Asharite Kalam].” Minbar. Islamic Studies 11(3)(2018):553–562. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “O lyubvi kak fundamental'nom atribute Boga v teologii Ibn-Siny [On the Concept of Love as a Fundamental Attribute of God in Avicenna’s Theology].” Minbar. Islamic Studies 11(2)(2018):283–295. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “Ali Abdarrazik kak rodonachal'nik sekulyarizma v islame. Chast' II [‘Ali ‘Abd al-Raziq as a Father of Islamic Secularism. Part Two].” Islam v sovremennom mire [Islam in the Modern World] 14(4)(2018);:97–114.

• “Zhizn' proroka Muhammada. Hidzhra [The Life of the Prophet Muhammad. Hijrah].” Nauchno-kul'turologicheskiy al'manah Mavlid an-Nabiy [Scientific and Cultural Almanac Mavlid an-Nabiy] (2017): 6–17 (in collaboration with T.K. Ibragim).
• “Universalistskaya intentsiya fal'safy [The Universalistic Intention of Falsafa].” Islam v sovremennom mire [Islam in the Modern World] 4(2017): 167–186. DOI: 10.22311/2074-1529-2017-13-4-167-186.
• “Farabi” Bol'shaya Rossiyskaya Entsiklopediya [Big Russian Encyclopedia] 33. Moscow: BRE, 2017: 196.

2016

• “Zhizn' proroka Muhammada [The Life of the Prophet Muhammad].” Nauchno-kul'turologicheskiy al'manah Mavlid an-Nabiy [Scientific and Cultural Almanac Mavlid an-Nabiy] (2016): 12-30 (in collaboration with T.K. Ibragim).

2014

• “Some Aspects of Avicenna’s Epistemology.” Philosophy and Science in Cultures of East and West. Russian Philosophical Studies XIII / Marietta T. Stepanyants ed. Washington: The Council for Research of Values and Philosophy, 2014: 175-181.
• “Profetologicheskaya mysl' klassicheskogo islama [The Prophytological Thought of Classical Islam].” Istoriko-filosofskiy ezhegodnik’ 2014 [History of Philosophy Yearbook’ 2014] (2014): 182-220 (in collaboration with T.K. Ibragim).
• “O logike i metodicheskom opyte v avitsennovskoy epistemologii [On the Logic and Methodological Practice in Avicenna's Epistemology].” Istoriko-filosofskiy ezhegodnik' 2013 [History of Philosophy Yearbook’ 2013] (2014): 290–299.

2013

• “Zhizn' proroka Muhammada [The Life of the Prophet Muhammad].” Nauchno-kul'turologicheskiy al'manah Mavlid an-Nabiy [Scientific and Cultural Almanac Mavlid an-Nabiy] 6(2013): 4-18 (in collaboration with T.K. Ibragim).
• “Politicheskiy ideal al'-Farabi [The Political Ideal of al-Farabi].” Istoriya filosofii [History of Philosophy] 18(2013):176-199.
• “O nekotoryh aspektah avitsennovskoy epistemologii [On Some Aspects of Avicenna's Epistemology].” Filosofiya i nauka v kul'turah Vostoka i Zapada [Philosophy and Science in the Cultures of the East and West]. M.T. Stepanyants ed. Moscow: Nauka – Vostochnaya literatura, 2013: 294-300.

2000–2009

• The series of articles on Arab-Muslim philosophy and Arab-Muslim thinkers (al-Kindi, al-Farabi, Ibn Sina, Ibn Tufail, Ibn Rushd) in New Philosophic Encyclopedia. In 4 vols, Moscow: 2000; Historical Lexicon. Moscow: 2006; Big Encyclopedic Dictionary, Moscow: 2009.

1998

• “O noologii vostochnyh peripatetikov [On East Peripatetics Noology].” Ocherki po arabo-musul'manskoy filosofii [Essays on the Arab-Muslim Philosophy]. Moscow: Nauka, 1998.
• “Ob averroistskoy noologii [On Averroist Noology].” Istoriko-filosofskiy ezhegodnik [History of Philosophy Yearbook] (1998).

1991

• “K voprosu o vzaimootnoshenii mezhdu filosofiey, teologiey i politikoy Vil'yama Okkama [On the Question of the Relationship between the Philosophy, Theology and Politics of William Occam].” Historia philosophiae Medii Aevi. Amsterdam: B.R. Grunner, 1991.

1981–1990

• The series of articles on the political philosophy of William Occam (1981-1990);

Translations:

• “Ibn-Sina (Avicenna). Ukazaniya i napominaniya [Razdel po metafizike]. Chast' tret'ya (s primech. i komm.) [Ibn-Sina (Avicenna). Al-Isharat wa-t-tanbihat [on metaphysics]. Part three].” Orientalistica 2(1)(2019): 79–116. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “Ibn-Sina (Avicenna). Ukazaniya i napominaniya [Razdel po metafizike]. Chast' chetvertaya (s primech. i komm.) [Ibn-Sina (Avicenna). Al-Isharat wa-t-tanbihat [on metaphysics]. Part four].” Orientalistica 2(2)(2019): 337–374. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “Ibn-Sina (Avicenna). Ukazaniya i napominaniya [Razdel po metafizike]. Chast' pyataya (s primech. i komm.) [Ibn-Sina (Avicenna). Al-Isharat wa-t-tanbihat [on metaphysics]. Part five].” Orientalistica 2(3)(2019): 634–676. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “Ibn-Rushd. O metodah obosnovaniya principov veroucheniya. Chast' tret'ya (s primech i komm.) [Ibn-Rushd (Averroes) On the Methods of Proof for the Principles of Creed. Part Three].” Minbar. Islamic Studies 12(1)(2019): 113–149. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “Ibn-Rushd. O metodah obosnovaniya principov veroucheniya. Chast' chetvertaya (s primech i komm.) [Ibn-Rushd (Averroes). On the Methods of Proof for the Principles of Creed. Part Four].” Minbar. Islamic Studies 12(2)(2019): 463–498. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “Ibn-Rushd. O metodah obosnovaniya principov veroucheniya. Chast' pyataya (s primech i komm.) [Ibn-Rushd (Averroes) On the Methods of Substantiating the Principles of Creed. Part Five].” Minbar. Islamic Studies 12(4)(2019): 1003–1049. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)

• “Ibn-Rushd. O metodah obosnovaniya principov veroucheniya. Chast' pervaya (s primech i komm.) [Ibn Rushd (Averroes). On the Methods of Proof for the Principles of Creed. Part One].” Minbar. Islamic Studies 11(3)(2018): 563–591. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “Ibn-Rushd. O metodah obosnovaniya principov veroucheniya. Chast' vtoraya (s primech i komm.) [Ibn-Rushd (Averroes). On the Methods of Proof for the Principles of Creed. Part Two].” Minbar. Islamic Studies 11(4)(2018): 783–804. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “Ibn-Sina (Avicenna). ‘Ukazaniya i napominaniya’ [Razdel po metafizike]. Gl. 4 (s primech. i komm.) [Al-Isharat wa-t-tanbihat [On Metaphysics]." Ch. 4].” Orientalistica 1(2)(2018): 251–274. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “Ibn-Sina (Avicenna). «Ukazaniya i napominaniya» [Razdel po metafizike]. Gl. 5 [Ibn-Sina (Avicenna) Al-Isharat wa-t-tanbihat [On Metaphysics]. Part Two].” Orientalistica 1(3–4)(2018): 461–488. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)
• “Ibn-Sina. O lyubvi (s primech. i komm) [Ibn-Sina A. On Love].” Minbar. Islamic Studies 11(2)(2018): 296–321. (In collab. with T. Ibrahim)

• Ibn-Rushd. “Bol'shoy Kommentariy k ‘Metafizike’ Aristotelya (Tafsir Ma ba'ad at-tabi'at). Razdel ob obosnovanii bytiya Boga i o Ego atributah [“Great Commentary on Aristotle's ‘Metaphysics.’ Section on the Justification of the Existence of God and His Attributes].” (Preface, translation and notes by N.V. Efremova.) Ars Islamica. Moscow: Vostochnaya literatura, 2016: 512-552.

• Ali Abdarrazik. “Islam i printsipy pravleniya [Islam and the Principles of Government]” (Preface, translation and notes by N.V. Efremova.) Istoriya filosofii [History of Philosophy] 20,2(2015): 148-16.

• Ibn-Rushd. “Bol'shoy Kommentariy k sochineniyu Aristotelya ‘O dushe’ (fragment) [“Great Commentary on Aristotle's Work ‘On the Soul’ (fragment).]” (Preface, translation from Latin, notes by N.V. Efremova) Ishrak 3(2012): 380-407.

Participation at congresses and conferences

2019

• 2019, December 3 – Speaker at the Scientific Seminar "Oriental Studies and Comparative Philosophy in the 21st Century: Challenges and Perspectives", IPHRAS, Moscow (paper: “The Avicennian Reform of Aristotle’s Metaphysics”).
• 2019, September 22 – Speaker at the IV All-Russian Scientific and Educational Conference with international participation “Shigabutdin Mardzhani Readings” (section “Islamic philosophy and culture”, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow (paper: “Islamization of Aristotelism in Ibn-Sina’s Metaphysics”).
• 2019, May 16 – Speaker at the regular seminar of the Department of Aesthetics, IPHRAS, Moscow (paper: “Mononohism of Ibn-Rushd (Averroes)”).

• 2017, December 7 – Speaker at the Scientific Seminar "Oriental Studies and Comparative Philosophy in the 21st Century: Challenges and Perspectives", IPHRAS, Moscow (paper: "Universalist Attitudes of the Arab-Muslim Classical Philosophy (on the Example of Falsafa)").
• 2017, June 22 – Speaker at the Scientific Seminar "Oriental Studies and Comparative Philosophy in the 21st Century: Challenges and Perspectives", IPHRAS, Moscow (paper: "Liberal ‘Challenge’ by Ali Abdarazik (1888–1966)").
• 2017, November 22-24 – Speaker at the II All-Russian Scientific and Educational Conference " Shigabutdin Mardzhani Readings": "The Renewal Movement in Islam: Past, Present and Future", St. Petersburg (paper: "Ali Abdarrazik as the Founder of Secular Islam" ).

2016

• 2016, April 27-29 – Speaker at the 3rd International Scientific and Theological Conference "Bigiev Readings": "The Inclusiveness of Divine Grace as the Principle of Interreligious Dialogue in the 21st Century", St. Petersburg (paper: "Universalist Intention of Falsafa").

2015

• 2015, May 17-20 – Speaker at the II International Scientific and Educational Conference "Bigiev Readings", St. Petersburg (paper: "The Problem of Theocracy in Muslim Reformism").

Awards

•  2010 – The work “Life of Prophet Mohammed” was declared the “Book of the Year” (in the field of Humanities) by the Russian Federal Agency for Publishing and Mass Communications