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Translation and commentary of the political Sogdian documents from the Mount Mugh (early720's)
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      Central Asian StudiesUmayyads (Islamic History)PanjikentSogdian Texts
This paper aims to discuss the philological ‘mechanisms’ used in translating Christian texts into Sogdian. In particular, it focuses on how different Christian theological and ecclesiological vocabularies were translated from Syriac.... more
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      EthnolinguisticsHistorical LinguisticsCentral Asia (History)Church of the East theology
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      Persian LiteratureZoroastrianismIranian StudiesPersian Language
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      ManichaeismSogdian TextsSogdian LanguageText Edition
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      Nomadic PeoplesManichaeismSogdianCosmogony
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      ManichaeismSogdianParablesManichaean parables
This paper, published in two parts, presents the results of joint work on several Sogdian fragments recently discovered in the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM, RAS),... more
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      Sogdian ArchaeologySogdianCentral Asians/Sogdians in ChinaBactrian and Sogdian Language
Sogdština byla jedním z významných jazyků středoasijské trasy Hedvábné stezky. V tomto jazyce se zachovala celá řada různorodých textů – osobní korespondence, diplomatická pošta, smlouvy různého charakteru, účetní záznamy, překlady... more
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      SogdianSogdian TextsSogdian Language
This paper, published in two parts, presents the results of joint work on several Sogdian fragments recently discovered in the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IOM, RAS),... more
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      Sogdian ArchaeologySogdianCentral Asians/Sogdians in ChinaBactrian and Sogdian Language
The paper gives a survey of the codicological variety of the Sogdian manuscripts in Manichaean script of the Berlin Turfan Collection. Book formats, paper/silk/leather type, re-used paper, scripts and plurilingualism will be examined and... more
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      Codicology of medieval manuscriptsManichaeismIranian LanguagesSogdian
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      Central Asian StudiesTajikistanArchaeology of Central AsiaSogdian Archaeology
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      Nomadic PeoplesManichaeismSogdianCosmogony
Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of Sogdian Buddhist monks in the spread of Buddhism in southern China. Sogdians played an important role in promoting Buddhism because they knew Chinese and Hindi, and they... more
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      Sogdian TextsSogdian Language and HistorySogdian Culture
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      SogdianSogdian TextsSogdian Language and HistorySogdian Language
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      History of LinguisticsLanguages and LinguisticsLexicologyHistorical Linguistics
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      ArtIranian StudiesManichaeismIranian Languages
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      Syriac StudiesNew Testament and Christian OriginsSyriac ChristianityXinjiang studies
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      Sogdian TextsSogdian Language
Středoasijský Turkestán by se dodnes dal nazvat Babylonem jazyků – nejinak tomu bylo i v předislámském období. Zejména z oblasti Turfanské oázy v Ujghuristánu pochází celá řada textů v různých jazycích (íránských, indoárských,... more
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      Silk Road StudiesCentral Asians/Sogdians in ChinaSogdian TextsAlphabets