MARIETTA STEPANIANTS (STEPANYANTS) (b. 1935)

Present occupation:

Head of the department of the Oriental Philosophies and the Director, Center for Oriental Philosophies' Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow (since 1980).

Professor and Head, Chair of Philosophy and Political Thought of the East of the Russian State University of Humanities (since 1996).

Member of:

· Elected active member of the Academy of Humanities Research (Russia)

· Member of the Russian Philosophical Association.

· Member of the editorial boards:

· History of Philosophy Annual. Moscow.

· Philosophical Heritage Series. Moscow.

· Philosophy East & West Journal. Honolulu, USA (Corresponding editor)

· Social Sciences Research Journal, Chandigarh, Punjab University

Honors/Prizes received:

· Russian Federal State stipend recipient (given to the most distinguished Russian scholars in humanities and sciences) since 1995.

· State Award of Tajikistan "Ashraf" (by the decree of the Tajik President, 1999)

· "Annual Lecturer" Award of the Indian Council for Philosophical Research, 2001

· Honored Scholar of the Russian Federation Award (by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, 2002)

Main Publications:

I . The author of about 300 publications in 14 languages, including 15 books the main of which are:

· Pakistan: Philosophy and Sociology. Lahore: People's Publishing House, 1972, 150 pp.

· The Philosophical Aspects of Sufism. New Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1989, 109 pp.

· Islamic Philosophy and Social Thought (XIX-XX Centuries). Lahore: People's Publishing House, 1989, 159 pp.

· Sufi Wisdom. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, pp. 132.

· Gandhi and the World Today. A Russian Perspective. New Delhi: Rajendra Prasad Academy, 1998, 84 pp.

· Introduction to Eastern Thought. Walnut Creek-Lanham-New York-Oxford: AltaMira Press. A Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC., 2002, 293 pp.

· Editor -in- chief of two Academic series: "Eastern Philosophy" and "Comparative Philosophy", Moscow: "Vostochnaya literatura", Nauka Russian Academy of Sciences.

· Editor of about 30 books including:

· Philosophy and Religion in the East. XX Century. Moscow: Nauka, 1985, 212 pp.

· Rationalistic Tradition and Modernity. (In three volumes), Moscow: Nauka, 1988 -2000.

· Muslim Philosophy in Soviet Studies. New Delhi: Sterling Publishing House, 1988, 132 pp.

· God- Man-Society in Traditional Cultures of the East. Moscow: Nauka, 1993, 224 pp.

· Feminism: East-West-Russia. Moscow: Nauka, 1993, 243 pp.

· History of Indian Philosophy: A Russian Viewpoint. New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1993, pp. 236 pp.

· Justice and Democracy: Cross- Cultural Perspectives (co-edited with Ron Bontekoe). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997, 477 pp.

· Universals of the Eastern Cultures. Moscow: Nauka, 2001, 432 pp.

· Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium. (co-ed. with Peter Hershock and Roger T.Ames). Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, pp. 750 (in press)

· Religion and Identities in Russia. Moscow: Nauka , 230 pp. (in press)

What I can contribute to the work of FISP?:

I dare believe that :

a) my more than 40 years work at the Institute of Philosophy, AS, would permit me truly to represent the Russian philosophical community in FISP;

b) my academic skills and knowledge as well as a rich experience in organizing international meetings (such as the most recent: Director of the 7th and co - Director of the 8th East-West Philosophers’ Conference. Honolulu, Hawaii, 1995, 2000; Director of The First Moscow International Conference on Comparative Philosophy, Moscow, 2002; co - Director of the International Conference on Sufism, Turin, Italy, 2002) might be useful in promoting a dialogue of cultures in the field of philosophy.

Proposed by:

Philosophical Society of Turkey

Russian Philosophical Society

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