2016.4

This article deals with the fate of Hyderabad, the largest princely state in South Asia, after it was integrated into the Indian Union. The decolonization of South Asia affected not only the provinces of British India, but also most of the 600 Indian princely states. Russian historiography pays special attention to the events that took place in British India. The author analyzes the decolonization of Indian princely states, in particular, the case of Hyderabad, which was exceptionally important due to its strategic location within India. Hyderabad was forcedly integrated into India, so this article dwells on the aftermath of this event.

The article is focused on the role of Nuri al-Said in the process of state-making in Iraq in the beginning of the XX century. Special attention is paid to the issues of establishing of the British Mandate in Mesopotamia and the beginning of the independence according to the treaty of 1930 between Britain and Iraq.

Imperial ideology and practice under Abdul Hamid II marked the return of the religious factor: the revival of the Caliphate and the concept of Islamic solidarity. During the reign of Abdul Hamid II “Scenario of power” of the secular and cosmopolitan empire turned into a national-religious myth. Sultan’s reign concept maintained and transformed the dynamic combination of the spiritual and secular elements. The idea of the extraterritoriality of spiritual power has become an essential component of the official ideology of Pan-Islamism.

The article raises questions connected to the appropriation of the Sharia by Christian political system; the ability of the Latin political and legal system to include the norms of Islamic law into its judicial practice of local courts and of the Royal Curia. The Crown of Aragon was selected for this study because the Muslim population there was numerous, and the informative sources were preserved. The author argues that Islamic law was not rejected by the legal system of Christians. The Sharia was present within the hierarchical legal space of Kingdom as its natural part.

The article presents an analysis of the semantic field of oscillation verbs in Hindi and its metaphorization. The main aim of this article is to study the principles of organization of the semantic field of oscillation in Hindi. Some semantic parameters relevant for this field in Hindi were revealed. The most relevant parameters are animateness and oscillation because of the deformation.

The article describes the semantic field of the “human” concept that is widely presented among the Swahili proverbs. That is the space of this concept that helps to overview the system of spiritual cultural values. Cultural and spiritual values are very important part of every ethnic community and Swahili as well. These values are accumulated, carefully kept and pass from generation to generation of Swahili people with the help of their proverbs. Cultural values are also a basic category of the world’s picture of the ethnos. All the values are invisibly spread and somehow codified in the language of Swahili community and proverbs are not an exception. The investigation of human values through the proverbs is like a key to the soul of Swahili people.

The article deals with the historical overview of the emergence of the interest to the composition of the Qur’ān and the formation of the special discipline in the classical Muslim science written by an authority in the subject, Badr ad-Dīn az-Zarkashī. Zarkashī dates the beginning of this interest back to the first half of the Xth century but it is only in the XIII–XIVth centuries that we can speak of the existence of the discipline devoted to munāsabāt. Zarkashī’s text became a starting point for Jalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūṭī in his famous Itqān. The article includes also a survey of the concrete approaches of Muslim scholars to the study of the structure of the Qur’ānic text.

The article gives a synopsis of the main features of Arabic grammar, including morphology, inflection and syntax. Its viewpoint is that of the general linguistics which can help to bring together theoretical positions of general linguists and scholars of Arabic and to work out a common approach to the structure of Semitic languages.