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Edition of Sogdian epistolary fragments discovered in Turfan as well as a wide-ranging comparative analysis of Sogdian epistolary formulae. An important part of the Sogdian corpora which have come down to us are epistolary texts: both the earliest substantial Sogdian documents (the 'Ancient Letters') and the only substantial textual corpus found in Sogdiana itself (the Mugh documents). The Turfan collections of (especially) Berlin, Kyoto, and St. Petersburg, also preserve a number of letter fragments. Altogether, these texts attest different phases of a Sogdian epistographical tradition stretching over some seven centuries. The edition and analysis of both well-preserved and fragmentary texts can contribute to efforts to reconstruct parts of those traditions - and eventually connect them with those of Central Asia and Iran more broadly.

Brief. --- Letters. --- Manuscripts, Sogdian. --- Sogdian letters. --- Sogdian literature --- History and criticism. --- Sogdiana.

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"During the Abbasid period (750-820), the vast territories beyond the Amu Darya river (the Mawara'annahr), conquered by the Umayyad generals in the first half of the eighth century, entered definitively into the cultural sphere of Islam. The comparative analysis of medieval Arabic, Persian, and Chinese sources, supplemented by materials from unpublished manuscripts, as well as the latest results yielded by archaeological excavations at Samarkand, have made it possible to establish a fine-grained chronology of this turning point in the history of Central Asia. Examined in this new light are complex and irreversible processes that resulted in a changed political and religious fabric, transformations of the Sogdian and Muslim elite, and the evolution of the state's system of controlling territories on its borders, within a context of confrontations and diplomatic relations between the caliphate, the Tang empire in China, and the Turks"--Back cover.

Abbasids --- Islam --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- 'Abbassides --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- History --- Histoire --- Asia, Central --- Samarqand (Uzbekistan) --- Asie centrale --- Samarkand (Ouzbékistan) --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Antiquities. --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Islam. --- Abbasiden, --- To 1500. --- Transoxiana --- Asia, Central. --- Asia --- Uzbekistan --- Transoxanien. --- Samarkand. --- Sogdiana. --- ʻAbbāssides --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Samarkand (Ouzbékistan) --- Antiquités --- Islam - Asia, Central - History - To 1500 --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Uzbekistan - Samarqand --- Transoxiana - History - To 1500 --- Asia, Central - History - To 1500 --- Samarqand (Uzbekistan) - Antiquities