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Gordiy Sablukov

Scholar on Islam

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionApr 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ737447 ↗
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Gordiy Semionovich Sablukov (1804–1880) was a Russian expert on Islam.

With Dimitriy Boguslavsky he was responsible for the first Russian translation of the Koran from Arabic into Russian.

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Bibliography

Geraci, Robert.; Khodarkovsky, Michael (2001). Of religion and empire: missions, conversion, and tolerance in Tsarist Russia. ISBN 9780801434228.

Geraci, Robert (2001). Window on the East: national and imperial identities in late tsarist Russia. ISBN 9780801434228.

Petrosyan, Yu (1996). Koran review [1997].

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