Fyodor P. Khodeev

in the works of Russian writers, touching upon the important and now the theme of the Caucasian war, the word “Gazavat” is used to denote the resistance of Muslims, but the word “Jihad” is not used. The article deals with the emergence and correlation of the concepts of “Jihad” and “Gazavat” on the extensive material. And it is also proved, using the texts of the Koran and hadith, that under Jihad the Prophet understood not terrorist acts, not brutal execution of people, but sublime and noble deeds. The authors, arguing with the well-known concept of J. Friedman, predict, but on other grounds,...

the article proposes an original version of the origin of the names of the main characters of the novel L.N. Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. The author of the article, exploring the novel and extensive materials on it, shows an amusing but systematic replacement of L.N. Tolstoy when working on the novel the names of the heroes of the novel from Greek to Jewish, and from Jewish to Greek. This and other facts of the famous novel indicate changes in the work of the great Russian writer, not noticed by other researchers. In addition, the article shows the account of Russian characters when choosing the n...