Vol. 44 No. 2 (2026)

Articles

• Religion, Conspiracy, and National Unity: Anti-Baha’i Rhetoric in the Fake Persian-Language “Memoirs of Prince Dolgorukov”

  V. S. Titova (Автор)

  158-187

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026

• The Transformation of the Role of the Imam in Alamut Ismailism (11th–13th Centuries) as a Metaphysical Project of Legitimizing Power

  T. G. Korneeva (Автор)

  23-46

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026

• A Sufi Sheikh as a Court Advisor: The Case of ‘Imad al-Faqih al-Kirmani

  V. V. Brykina, N. Yu. Chalisova (Автор)

  47-78

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026

• Divine and Human Might (qudrat) in Jalal al-Din Rumi’s Oeuvre: A Combined Reading Approach

  A. A. Lukashev (Автор)

  79-106

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026

• Political Pluralism in the Qom Seminary during the Islamic Republic of Iran

  R. Taran (Автор)

  222-250

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026

• Global and Local in the Representation of the Iranian Religious and Political Doctrine: The Shia Hyperobject and the Designed Chronotope

  E. A. Krykov, E. M. Seitov (Автор)

  188-221

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026

• Negotiating Persian Artistic Traditions among Armenian Christians in Safavid Iran

  Y. Tajarian, G. Gasparyan (Автор)

  107-129

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026

• Review of: Talattof, K. (2025) Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature. Demystifying the Mystic. New York: Columbia University Press. 284 p.

  Е. O. Akimushkina (Автор)

  251-260

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026

• Review of: Ghobadzadeh, N. (2023) Theocratic Secularism Religion and Government in Shīʿi Thought. New York City: Oxford University Press. 321 p.

  V. I. Belov (Автор)

  261-270

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026

• Review of: Buhler, A. (2024) Zoroastrianism in India and Iran: Persians, Parsis and the Flowering of Political Identity. London; New York; Oxford; New Delhi; Sydney: I. B. Tauris. 312 p.

  M. Yu. Sukhanov (Автор)

  271-280

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026

• From “Solution of the Moslem Problem” to Promoting Modernization: The Evolution of Presbyterian Missionary Activities in Iran, 1925–1953

  M. Yu. Surkov (Автор)

  130-157

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  Published: 15 February 2026

• Religious Aspects of Indonesian Folklore. Review of: Frolova, M. V. (2022) Folklore of the Indonesian Islands: Archaic and Modern. Moscow: Klyuch-S. 336 p. (in Russian)

  E. V. Gordienko (Автор)

  281-289

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  Published: 15 February 2026

• Religion and Power in Iran in Historical Perspective: The “Regimes of Mixture”

  M. A. Alontsev (Автор)

  7-22

  • PDF (Russian)

  Published: 15 February 2026