Судан и Большой Ближний Восток

590 Contents IV. Middle East and its Neigbours Vassilios Christides The Cycle of the Arab –Byzantine Struggle in Crete (ca 824/6-961 AD) in the Illuminated Manuscript of Skylitzes (Codex Matritensis Graecus Vitr. 26-2).....................305 Dimitrios G. Letsios Leo VI the Wise and the Saracens: The Image of the Arabs in His Military Collection. ......................................................... 340 Alexey A. Khismatulin The Results of Textual Criticism in the Series The Persian Mirrors for Princes Written in the Saljuq Period: Originals and Fabrications ............................................................366 Tigran G. Tumanian Abu-l-Hasan al-Mawardi. Al-Ahkam al-sultaniyya wa-l-wilayat al-diniyya (“The Laws of Power and Religious Government”): Chapter Fi ‘aqd al-imama. Translated into Russian with comments by Tigran G. Tumanian.......................................393 Vladimir N. Blondin The Manifestation of «the Yemeni Patriotism» in the Late Medieval Yemeni Chronicle «News of Contemporaries on the History of Yemen» (the 17th C.)........................................408 Nikolay N. Dyakov Ahmad Al-Maqqari in the History and Historiography of the Arab West (Al-Maghrib and Al-Andalus)........................... 419 Ilya Zaycev Muhammad’s Noble Sandals, or Ahmad al-Maqqari in the Volga Region.................................................................... 434 Victor V. Pallades The Concepts of Politeness and Impoliteness in the Arabic Language and Culture. .......................................... 444