The Current Situation of Christianity in the Middle East

Palamarenko E.V.
The history of the Gornensky Convent written by hieromonk Isaiah (Babinin) in 1950...........4

Novotortseva A.M.
Soviet and Church diplomacy during the election of the new Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Antioch in 1958...........33

History of Christianity in the Middle East

Mantsevich L.N.
French Jerusalem...........46

Theology

Zinkevich T.E.
On the question of studying the lives of the Stylites...........65

Rozov V.A.
Evidentiality in the language of the Quran in the light of the sacred nature of the text...........80

Shavlidze Z.B.
The "Great Game" and the Missionary Aspect of the Russian-British Confrontation in Central and South Asia (second half of the 19th century)...........92

“Debt unpaid”. In memory of Nikolai Nikolaevich Lisovoy

Lisovoy N.N.
Transfiguration of the Lord: iconography and the meaning of the holiday...........118

Reviews

Kashitsyn I.D., deacon
Archbishop Ambrose of Vereya and Bishop Demetrius of Safit — dialogue about the difficult life of Syrian Christians...........144