About author
The essay is devoted to the creative path of Vladimir Nikolaevich Shevelev, Professor of Rostov State University and Southern Federal University (1944–2024), Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Foreign History and International Relations at the Faculty of History of the Southern Federal University, Head of the Department of Russian History and Caucasian Studies and Deputy Director of the Institute of Retraining and Advanced Training of the Southern Federal University. For many years he was a member of the dissertation councils on historical, as well as philosophical and sociological sciences at the Southern Federal University, a member of the Scientific
Council on African Problems. Shevelev graduated from the Faculty of History of the Rostov State University in 1974, defended his PhD thesis “Cultural Transformations in Independent Algeria and French Neocolonialism” in 1979, and his doctoral thesis “Modernization of Islamic Societies: a socio–philosophical analysis” in 1997. He was the dean of the Faculty of History of the RSU from 1984 to 1986. Here he delivered a
lecture course for students “The modern history of Asian and African countries”, and also conducted two educational programs for masters: “Ethnic processes in the East” and “Ethno-confessional processes in the Caucasus”. V.N. Shevelev’s sphere of research interests included the history of Asia and Africa, modernization in Russian and in the world, ethno-confessional processes in the Eastern and Northern Caucasus, political leadership, problems of Islamic fundamentalism and extremism.