During its second and third seasons which took place between 1904-1907, the German
Turfan Expedition team came across a monastery that was previously unknown and …

A group of Syriac Christian believers existed during the fourth century called the Bnay
Qyōmo (with their female counterparts known as the Bnoth Qyōmo): the Sons and Daughters …

The trade routes of late antique and early medieval Eurasia conducted far more than goods.
Exchanges occurred between a number of prominent book cultures with origins or, at least …

Despite its linguistic and physical distance from the Mesopotamian heartland, the Church of
the East maintained its spiritual and theological heritage amongst its Iranian-speaking …

We are able to verify the variety of the religions of the Sogdians by the text fragments found
in the Turfan oasis (East Turkistan, today's Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China). They are …

Various religions were transmitted through the Silk Roads, a famous system of trade routes.
For this transmission, the Iranian speakers played a vital role. They travelled on the Silk …

Abstract The seventh century Chinese Christian manuscript Yishen lun (Discourse on God)
is not what Jingjiao scholarship has said it is, ie, an Aluoben document composed in …

In contrast to the rich manuscript and archaeological records of Buddhist, Christian and
Manichaean communities, there is a singular lack of textual or material evidence for the …

Abstract The Museum of Asian Art in Berlin holds a single-folio fragment (shelf-mark M 152)
of an Old Uigur medical text written in the Syriac script. It is the only known manuscript in the …

The bipartite division of the Islamic political scene into Sunni and Shi 'a is well known.
However, the Ibadi moveY ment is a much less prominent branch of this political scene. A …