Alexey Muraviev is a Habilitated Professor of Late Antique and Medieval History and Head of the Department of Central Asia and the Caucasus Institute of Asian and African Studies of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. He was a visiting scholar at the EX-PATRIA for three months starting from October 2024.
His stay was sponsored by the Thémis Programme Fellowship from the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme. Together with the EX-PATRIA team Alexey continues working on conversions from zoroastrianism to christianity in Syriac sources (from the 4th and 6th centuries)
Alexey’s main areas of interest cover Syriac, Christian Arabic, Georgian, Armenian and Ethiopic. He studied under Michel van Esbroeck and Sergei Averintsev. In the past, he received fellowships the CNRS (Paris), Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, University of Munich and IAS, Princeton. Alexey Muraviev authored several books, mainly on Syriac and other Oriental Christian matters.