Vladimir Alekseevich Ivanow (Russian: Владимир Алексеевич Иванов; November 3, 1886 – June 19, 1970) was a Russianorientalist. He was a scholar of Islam, with a particular focus on Ismailism. He graduated in 1907 and joined the faculty of Oriental Languages of the University of St. Petersburg.[1]
Vladimir Ivanow is a founding father of modern Isma'ili studies[2][3] and one of the most authoritative scholars in the subject.[4] He is a doctoral advisor of Farhad Daftary,[5] the most authoritative scholar of the subject in the modern world.[6][7]
Ismaili Literature: A Bibliographical Survey (2nd ed.). Teheran: Tehran University Press. 1963. (Second Amplified Edition of "A Guide to Ismaili Literature")
Catalogue of the Arabic manuscripts in the collection of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, Asiatic Society (Calcutta, India) Library, Wladimir Ivanow, revised by M. Hidayat Hosain. Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal, (1939), 689 pages, 2 vols., 221 pages.
The Gabri Dialect Spoken by the Zoroastrians of Persia (1940)
Ismaili tradition concerning the rise of the Fatimids (1942). Volume 10 of the Islamic Research Association Series, Oxford Univ. Pr. in Komm., 450 pages .
Ibn-al-Qaddah: (The Alleged Founder of Ismailism) (1946). The Ismaili Foundation, 2nd. edition, (1957), 169 pages,
On the Recognition of the Imam: Or Fasl Dar Bayan-i Shinakht-i Imam (1947)
Nāṣir-i Khusraw and Ismailism (1948).
Studies in early Persian Ismailism. E.J. Brill, (1948) - 202 pages
Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī (translation)
Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Collection of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1951), with M. Hidayat Hosain, M. Mahfuz-ul-Haq, M. Ishaque .
Studies in early Persian Ismailism, 2nd ed. (1955)
^Sárközy, Miklós (2019). "Meeting the Otherness". In Kovács, Attila; Šomodiová, Katarína (eds.). Contested Minorities of the Middle East and Asia. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 5. ISBN978-1-527-52631-0.
^Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (2011). "Introduction: A Biographical Scetch". In Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (ed.). Fortresses of the Intellect Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary. London: I.B. Tauris and Institute of Ismaili Studies. p. 6. ISBN978-1-786-73466-2.
^Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (2011). "Introduction: A Biographical Scetch". In Ali-de-Unzaga, Omar (ed.). Fortresses of the Intellect Ismaili and Other Islamic Studies in Honour of Farhad Daftary. London: I.B. Tauris. p. 1. ISBN978-1-786-73466-2.