Судан и Большой Ближний Восток

589 Contents Yasser H. Akel Hisham Akel: a Founder of the Russian Language Tuition in Sirya............................................................................ 87 Ramil M. Valeev, Roza Z. Valeeva The Arabic and Islamic Studies in Russia: Graduates of the German Universities at Kazan University in the 19th C. (Ch. Frähn, F. Erdmann, I. Gottwaldt).......................................108 Alexander S. Zdanevich The Crisis of Autocracy in Russia (the mid-19th — early 20th С.) and the Role of the Russian Volunteer Movement during the Anglo-Boer War.........................................................164 III. Sudan and its Neighbours Daniil A. Alferov Omdurman: A Background Note on the City Establishment and its Development during the Mahdist State (1885–1898)........185 Alexei A. Krol, Fedor I. Gordeev The Sword and the Saddle: Two Traditional Beja Culture Artefacts in the Collections of the Museum of Anthropology at the Moscow State University. ..................................................198 Alexander S. Matveyev A Case of Survival of an Early Medieval Straight Sword: “ Kaskara ” Broadswords in Pre-Modern Sudan............................225 Ayman Alamin Yahia Babiker Cattle in the Fulɓe Community.................................................. 284 Nikolay A. Dobronravin New Sources on the Tijānī Emigration from West Africa in the Early 20th Century........................................................... 294