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Sultanov T. Medieval Historiography in Manuscripts from East Turkestan // Manuscripta Orientalia. Vol. 2. No. 1. March 1996. P. 25—30.
In one of his early works published in 1897 V. V. Barthold
wrote: “The population of East Turkestan was obviously
never renowned for its literary productivity; our evidence
on the history of this land we obtain for the most part from
Chinese literature and from the works of Muslim historiographers
written in Mawarannahr or in Persia”. This remark
is often cited in Orientological works. It is not mentioned,
however, that this remark reflects the state of our
source-basis in the 1890s. At the same time, from the end
of 1897 various manuscript collections from East Turkestan
have been coming to the Asiatic Museum in St. Petersburg
(now the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental
Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences)...
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Ключевые слова Восточный Туркестан историография мусульманская
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