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Brachnoe pravo drevni︠a︡go Vostoka (Marriage laws in the ancient Near East) originally was written as a doctoral thesis at Kazan University, the premier center for oriental studies in the Russian Empire. The author, Adolf Mikhailovich Osipov (1842‒1905), was a scholar, jurist, and writer. Of Polish origin, he studied in Warsaw and in Germany, and taught at Kazan University, where the book was published in 1872. The book has three chapters. Chapter one gives an overview of the cultures covered in the book (China, Egypt, India, Persia, the ...