Lectures of Professor of the Latvian Imants Lavins academic staff in the history of the Arab cartography

May 16, 2019 at the Department of history of Kazakhstan of the faculty of history of ENU. L. N. Gumileva Imants Lavins, doctor of albert College (Riga, Latvia). the lectures were thanks to the support of the international Erasmus plus program, which develops academic interaction between scientists from different countries. Imants Lavins has been studying the history of Arabic cartography for many years. Imants Lavins is a specialist in medieval history, in particular the history of Muslim science, as well as Arabic and Persian languages. During the lectures, Dr. Imants Lavins spoke about the scientific interests of specialists of Latvia, in contact with the history of Eastern countries, Central Asia, the importance of studying Eastern manuscripts for the completeness of the representation of the General history, as well as the history of Latvia.