mysteriously died the great Arabist Isaac Filshtinskogo. He died suddenly, there is little doubt that this strong man will live to be a hundred years old, but fate decreed otherwise. In Moscow, 96, died historian, literary critic, orientalist, Arabist Isaac Filshtinsky. Most recently, he was not feeling well after a heart attack. However Filshtinsky continued to science and literature.
Filshtinsky – by now classical work “The History of Arabic Literature V – X in the beginning.”, “History of Arabic Literature X-XVIII centuries.”, “History of the Arabs and the Caliphate 750-1517′s.” “caliphate ruled by the Umayyad dynasty »
In 1949, as a professor of the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, was arrested and sentenced to ten years under article 58.10. Served time in Kargopollag in the Arkhangelsk region. In 1955, released under an amnesty in 1957, rehabilitated. In 1994 he published a book of stories about life in the camp, “We are marching under guard».
Since 1968, participated in the human rights movement. After a search of the apartment with the withdrawal of samizdat literature in 1978, was fired from the then director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Yevgeny Primakov. Since 1992, he taught at the Moscow State University.
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