The second edition of popular science essays on the history of Arabic navigation by Theodor Adamovich Shumovsky (born 1913), the oldest living Russian Arabis...

Memoirs of a prominent St. Petersburg orientalist-Arabist, Doctor of Historical Sciences T.A. Shumovsky (born 1913), cover the period from pre-revolutionary ...

The book tells a lively and fascinating story about the outstanding navigator, pilot of the Vasco da Gama expedition (1498) - Ahmad ibn Majid. The personalit...

Readers are invited to the first Russian translation of the medieval Arabic treatise on navigation by Sulaiman al-Mahri “al-'Umda al-mahriyya fi dabt al-'ulu...