Sablukov Gordy

Sablukov Gordy (1803–1880) – member of the missionary movement, Arabist, historian of religion.

In 1826, he graduated from the Orenburg Spiritual Seminary; in 1830 – from the Moscow Spiritual Academy. In 1830-1849, he taught history and oriental languages at the Saratov Spiritual Seminary. In 1849-1962, he taught oriental and classical languages at the Anti-Islamic Department of the Kazan’ Spiritual Academy.

He was the author of the first published translation of the Quran into Russian (1878).

He is known, first of all, with his translations from Arabic and Turkic languages: the Quran, and the ‘Genealogic Tree of the Turks’ by the Khan of Khiva Abu-l-Gazi; and also with his research works: ‘Supplements to the Quran’ (1879), and ‘Data on the Quran’ (1884). He analyzed some religious issues in his works on the history of the peoples of the Low Volga Region: ‘An Essay of the Inner State of the Kipchak Tsardom’, ‘An Essay on the Genealogy, Geography, and the Way of Life of the People of Polovtsy’, ‘An Essay on the History and Inner Life of the Khazars State on Volga’, and in some other compositions.

Compositions

The State of Orthodox Russian Church in the Kipchak Tsardom, or the Golden Horde // Uchenye zapiski of the Kazan’ University. 1842, vol. 2. (in Rus.)
Peculiarities of Life of Russian Tartars // Saratovskie gubernskie vedomosti. 1846, No 25. (in Rus.)
An Essay on the History and Inner Life of the Khazars State on Volga // Saratovskie gubernskie vedomosti. 1849. № 9. (in Rus.)
A Comparison of the Muhameddan Doctrine on the Names of God with the Christian Doctrine on Them. Kazan’, 1873; Kazan’ University, 1874. (in Rus.)
Data on the Quran, The Basic Legal Book of the Muhameddan Doctrine. Kazan’, Commission of the Missionary Anti-Islamic Collection at the Kazan’ Spiritual Academy, 1884. (in Rus.)
Muhameddan Tales on Kybla. Kazan’ University, 1889. (in Rus.)
An Essay of the Inner State of the Kipchak Tsardom // Izvestiya of the Society for Archeology, History and Ethnography. Kazan’, 1895, vol. 13, iss. 3. (in Rus.)

About him

Krachkovsky I. Yu. Chernyshevsky and the Orientalist G. S. Sablukov // Selected Works, in 6 vol. Moscow – Leningrad, Ac. of Sc. of the U.S.S.R., 1955, vol. 1. (in Rus.)
Valeev R. М. From the History of Kazan’ Oriental Studies of the Middle and the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Gordy Semenovich Sablukov ‒ Specialist in Turkology and Islamic Studies. Kazan’, 1993. (in Rus.)
Valeev R. М. Kazan’ Oriental Studies: Sources and Evolution (the Nineteenth Century – 1820-s). Kazan’ University, 1998. (in Rus.)
Gusterin P. Russian Studies of the Quran of the pre-Soviet Period // Voprosy istorii. 2015, No 5, pp. 162‒ 163. (in Rus.)
Matochkina А., Stezkevich М. Shaping of Russian Islamic Studies: between Confessionalism and Research Objectivity (the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century ‒ the Early Twentieth Century) // State, Religion and Church in Russian and Abroad. 2018, No 1, pp.82-106. (in Rus.)

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