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MVHVΛV: towards the Interpretation of the Tuscan Epigraphic Inscription
- Authors: Valkov D.V.1
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- Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 3(897) (2025)
- Pages: 9-16
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-2197/article/view/286259
- ID: 286259
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The purpose of the article is to reinterpret the content and historical context of the inscription MVHVΛV available in the medieval Tuscan epigraphic material. The structure of military-political and cultural contacts of Tuscany in the VIII – 1st half of the XII century, as well as a number of objections related to the Michaelic interpretation, makes it possible to reinterpret the inscription MVHVΛV based on the Quranic substrate: as a transmission through the Latin graphics of the Quranic exclamation mā šāʾ Allāh. The inscription MVHVΛV, as well as monuments of Islamic Arabographic epigraphy of the X–XII centuries, embedded in the urban space of Christian Pisa, acquired in this connotation an ideological, apotropaic and invocative meaning.
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Dmitry Vadimovich Valkov
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow State Linguistic University
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Email: valkovdv@yandex.ru
PhD (History), Associate Professor
Lecturer at the Department of Second Foreign Languages of the RANEPA General Academic Faculty
Associate Professor at the Department of Phonetics and Grammar of the French Language, Faculty of French Language at MSLU
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