Islam. Muslim culture. Muslim world. Bartold V.V.

The book “Islam” contains the essays of the outstanding Russian orientalist, academician Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold (1869-1930), dedicated to Islam and Muslim culture. This work was first published in 1918-1922, where the author in a popular form for a wide reader and at a high scientific level spoke about the history and place of Muslim culture in the history of mankind. The works of V.V. Bartold in Islamic studies are distinguished by tolerance and the absence of Eurocentric-Christian stereotypes.