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Suvorova, Anna A. (born 11 January 1949, Moscow) — Russian scholar, orientalist and art critic.

Biography

In 1971 she graduated from the Institute of Asian and African countries (Moscow State University) with M. A. degree in Indian literatures and languages (Urdu, Hindi, Persian).

Since 1971 she has been working at the Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1976 she obtained her Ph.D. and in 1988 — D.Litt. degree from this Institution. At present she is the Head of the Department of Asian Literatures.

Anna Suvorova is Professor of Indo-Islamic culture at the Institute of Oriental and classical cultures (Russian State University for the Humanities), member of Intenational faculty in National College of Arts (Pakistan), fellow of Academic Advisory Board, Centre for Study of Gender and Culture (Pakistan), fellow of Royal Asiatic Society (UK).

Areas of professional interest: South-Asian premodern literatures, Islam in the Indian Subcontinent, Sufism, South-Asian performing and visual arts.

For her contribution to the research of Pakistani literature and cultural heritage she has been conferred one of the highest state awards of Pakistan — Sitara-i-Imtiaz.

Works

Anna Suvorova has authored 12 monographs on Oriental studies, 7 books of translations of the Indian prose into Russian, and 10 books and albums on contemporary Russian art. Among them:

  • Masnavi: A Study of Urdu Romance. — Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000. [1] [2]
  • Muslim Saints of South Asia: the eleventh to fifteenth century. — London—N.Y., 2004[3][4][5][6][7].
  • Barr-e saghir ke awliya aur unke mazar. — Lahore: Mashaal, 2007

    …After Dr. Annemarie Schimmel, Professor Anna Suvorova is perhaps the best scholar on mysticism in the western world. Her book Muslim Saints of South Asia was recently translated into Urdu. Titled Barre Sagheer key Aulia aur un key Mazar, it deals very objectively with the history of our shrines and saints. Although a lot has been written on mysticism, Suvorova has presented it as a living tradition, thus attracting the reader and creating an interest in the subject. Mysticism is not to be discussed, it is something to be practiced and it’s very difficult to write about the spiritual experience. Suvorova, however, has managed to share her spiritual experience so that the reader wants to know more, visit the shrines she mentions and share her experience.

    Iftikhar Arif (Chairman of the National Language Authority of Pakistan)[8]

  • Early Urdu Theatre: traditions and transformations. — Lahore: National College of Arts, 2009

References


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