Altuigurische Texte der Kirche des Ostens aus Zentralasien

by Peter Zieme

"The book is intended to present a full documentation of the Old Uigur texts of the Church of the East known from several places of Central Asia, mainly Bulayik and Kurutka in the Turfan oasis, as well as Xaraxoto. Our knowledge about the Christian communities in the Turfan oasis is very limited. Although there are some traces of an interrelationship between the Syriac, Iranian and Old Uigur text fragments, hardly anything can be stated in precise terms, the main reason being that we have no exact dates. The only possible period in which speakers of all these groups could communicate with...