Historical works written in the Turkic and Persian languages in the Middle Ages are manuscripts, and all have their authors. These authors report their names, nicknames or pen-names in the introduction or the colophon or at various places in the text of their work. The affirmation of authorship through mention of the name in the work was not merely the overriding tendency in the medieval Muslim historiography, but rather a traditional rule…
Third Kowalewski Readings (dedicated to the 190th anniversary of the Department of Mongolian philology, Kazan University) will be held in Kazan on October 11–13, 2023.
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