Among the requirements Muslim historians were expected to answer was the ability to arrange their materials so as to achieve a harmonious composition and an attractive form. Among the criteria applied when estimating a work on history, the question of its structure was among those of primary importance. In this article we shall try to outline the principal forms of arranging materials employed by the medieval authors writing in Persian and Turkish and to define the place and functions of the main structural components of their works…
At the IOM RAS Department of South Asian Studies, the monograph by Dr. Safarali Kh. Shomakhmadov Sanskrit Dhāraṇīs from the Serindia Manuscript Collection of the IOM RAS will be discussed.
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