Conference 2023


Dr Constantin Panchenko
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Professor
Moscow State University, Russia

Constantin Panchenko graduated from Moscow State University (1993);
Professor, Department of Middle and Near East History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University, Russia. 

Research Interest
Sphere of interest: a history of the Christian Arabs, particularly the Middle Eastern Greek Orthodox (the Melkite) community, in the Middle Ages and Early Modern time.

Research
The author of about 300 academic publications, including 4 monographs, collection of articles, articles and abstracts on the history of the Middle East. The editor of 2 collective monographs.
The main publications: 
1. Arab Orthodox Christians under the Ottomans. 1516¬–1831. Transl. by B. Phieffer Noble and S. Noble. Jordanville, N.Y.: Holy Trinity Publications, 2016. 688 p.  
2. When and Where “The Melkite Renaissance” Started? Metropolitan Yuwakim of Bethlehem, a Forgotten Arab-Christian Scholar of the Late 16th Century // Travaux de symposium international Le Livre. La Roumanie. L’Europe. Troisieme edition – 20 a 24 Septembre 2010. T. IV. P. 469–481. Bucarest, 2011.
3. The Antiochean Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate and Rome in the Late 16th C. A Polemic Response of the Metropolitan Athanasius Ibn Mujalla to the Pope // Actes du symposium international Le Livre. La Roumanie. L’Europe. 4-eme edition. 20-23 Septembre 2011. T. III. Section III. Latinite Orientale. Bucarest, 2012. P. 302–315.
4. A “Melkite Protorenaissance”: A forgotten cultural revival of the Melkites in the late 16th century / Parole de l’Orient. Vol. 39 (2014). P. 133–151.
5. Orthodoxy and Islam in the Middle East. The Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries. Transl. by B. Phieffer Noble and S. Noble. Jordanville, N.Y.: Holy Trinity Publications, 2021. 206 p.
6. The “Dark Age” of Middle Eastern Monasticism. Decline and Revival of the Palestinian Monasteries in the Late Mamluk and Early Ottoman Periods // Arabic Christianity between the Ottoman Levant and Eastern Europe. Ed. Ioana Feodorov, Bernard Heyberger, Samuel Noble. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2021. P. 30–46.