Dr. Oleg Redkin is working as a professor (full) of Arabic Studies, Head of the Arabic Chair, Faculty of African and Asian Studies, Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia. He was born in 1959 in Vilnius. Dr. Redkin received his Ph. D. degree in Arabic linguistics in 1984 and Doctor Habit Degree in 1999. His research interests include linguistics, Arabic and Islamic studies, computer text processing, ICT in Arabic learning. He published one monograph, three text books and about 100 papers. He is one of the authors of the online course on the Arabic language and he is one of the authors of two patented inventions.

Dr. Olga Bernikova is working as the Associate Professor at the Arabic Philology Department of Saint Petersburg State University, Russia. She is member of the Research Laboratory for Analysis and Modelling of Social Process and part of editorial board of the journal"Islam in the modern world". Dr. Bernikova received her Ph. D. degree in the Dialects of the Arabian Peninsula in 2002. Her current research interests include Arabic Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, ICT in Arabic Learning and Research, Islamic Studies. She published 4 textbooks and more than 70 papers. She is one of the authors of the online course on the Arabic language and has two inventions

The modern stage of the development of science shows that the most impressive discoveries occur on the borders of various fields of studies, for example, physics and biology, mathematics and philology, etc. The history of science shows that interdisciplinarity has been one of the main conditions of successful research work. The presentation regards interdisciplinarity in historical perspective. Multifaceted scholar activities are considered to be the hallmark of the ancient times. It seems that the history repeats and now we are witnessing reflection of the past but on a new stage of social development. The illustrative example of this practice are researches carried on at St. Petersburg State University.