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This publication presents the first translation from old Japanese to Russian language of one chapter about “ceremony of living beings releasing” from “Hachiman gudoukin” (“Admonition for stupid children about Hachiman”, XIV). This ceremony is performed at Iwashimizu shrine in Japan (Yawata city, Kyoto prefecture). Iwashimizu is a major shrine of Japanese tutelary deity Hachiman. Hachiman is known as a protector of the emperor and the state. Shrine chronicles link an origin of the ceremony to the suppression of Hayato tribe uprising in 720; the suppression was led by Hachiman as the protector deity of state. The rite is a blending of the Buddhistic doctrine of compassion and prohibition against killing the “living beings” with the Japanese practice of “appeasement” of spirits of those who died in the military campaign against Hayato.

The article is devoted to the little-studied period of the development of Persian Literature, which, nevertheless, can be characterized as an important stage in the stylistic evolution of the traditional poetry. The works of one of the most popular poets of the period Hatef Isfahani (died in 1784) show the process of formation of the new poetic style, based on the idea of returning to the classical norm. Hatef’s poetry demonstrates both the gap with the closest predecessors and significant differences with the stable repertoire of classical poetic motifs.

In the article, based on a series of computations and models, it is shown, that global economy which on the whole had been rapidly progressing since the start of the 19th century, during the last thirty years has noticeably slowed down rates of its growth. There are investigated causes of the paradoxical phenomenon, when, despite the emergence of foundations of knowledge-based economy in the advanced countries, there came about, according to generally accepted statistics, substantial decrease in growth rates of their GDP and Total Factor Productivity. Also are specified the scales, determinants and major restraints of the Asian economic upsurge as well as major components and contradictions of modern Russian developmental model. There also are provided an assessment of socio-economic and a number of political consequences of unbalanced growth of the world economy and a prognostic estimate of contours of world economic growth for the nearest decade.

This publication is based on the presentation made in the 26th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) which took place in Basel, Switzerland in September 12–16, 2012. The motto of the congress was Arabic and Islamic Studies in Europe and Beyond. The publication is dealing with the major stages in the history of the translation of the Muslim scripture into Russian and reconstruction of the comprehensive panorama of Qur’anic studies as an essential part of Arabic and Islamic studies.