Corpus of the Old Uighur Letters from the Eastern Silk Road [Chinese]

by T Moriyasu

The documents in this volume were written by people of the West Uighur kingdom, which flourished from the second half of the 9th century to the start of the 13th century in and around the eastern Tianshan region including the Turfan Depression, and by Uighurs of the 13th to 14th centuries when this region had come under the rule of the Mongol empire (i.e. former West Uighurs). Old Uighur is a form of Old Turkic. This Corpus includes over two hundred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN: 2503587089
• ISBN13: 9782503587080
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 11.5"