Andrey Smirnov

Date and place of birth

ORCID: 0000-0001-9671-9156

Researcher ID: K-3188-2018

SPIN-код: 6975-5290, AuthorID: 104551

March 12, 1958. Moscow

Education

1986–1989 – Correspondence Postgraduate Studies, Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy RAS.
1975–1981 – Department of Arabic, College of Afro-Asian Studies affiliated to the Moscow State University.

Degrees

1998 – D.Sc. in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy RAS. Thesis under the title ‘Sense Generating Procedures in Classical Islamic Philosophy’, later enlarged and reworked into a volume published in 2001 under the title ‘Logic of Sense. Theory and its application to the study of classical Arab culture’.
1989 – Ph.D. in Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy RAS. Thesis under the title ‘The Philosophical Views of Ibn ‘Arabī’ is a systematic exposition of Ibn ‘Arabī’s philosophical doctrine. Published in 1993 as a book, with the first full Russian translation of Fuṣūṣ al‑Ḥikam.

Titles

Fellowship

NIAS (Netherland Institute for Advanced Studies), 2-month fellowship programme, March-April 1997, Wassenaar, the Netherlands

Current position

2015 - 2021 - Director of the Institute, Institute of Philosophy under the Russian Academy of Sciences
2008 - present - Head, Department of Philosophy of Islamic World, Institute of Philosophy under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Courses in Moscow State University, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Publications

14 books and a number of articles in Bosnian, Bulgarian, Chinese, English, Italian, Japanese, Persian, and Russian. Contributed to the 'New Philosophical Encyclopaedia', 'Dictionary of Ethics' and 'World Around Us' encyclopaedia (in Russian)

Detailed list of publications with downloadable texts at Russian and English personal pages

Contacts

E-mail: asmirnov@iphras.ru

Web:

Russian page https://smirnov.iphras.ru