Monumenta of Master Lingming, by Wang Jianxin
Translation of extracts of a poem by Ma Lingming (1853-1915), excerpted from a hanging scroll dating back from 1953 (Lanzhou).
Translation of extracts of a poem by Ma Lingming (1853-1915), excerpted from a hanging scroll dating back from 1953 (Lanzhou).
This extract summarises the main features of Dervish Luzha’s hagiography. Its author is Nuredin Sadik Lushaj, a scholar of folk traditions from Tropoja (in the north of Albania). The ora mentioned in the title is a figure of northern Albanian mythology, known primarily north of the Drin River.
On December 10-13, Ulan Bigozhin made a short trip to the Kyzyl Orda Region, where is located the shrine complex of Khorasan Ata or Abd Zhalil Bab, via the city of Turkestan. During this stay, he visited several shrines and collected several interviews.
From 15 to 20 November 2022, I went to Albania and Kosovo to conduct a fieldwork research mission as part of the ‘Red Golden Legend’ ANR Project. My main objective was to conduct bibliographical...
In 2000, Abduwäli Äli published a historical novel (tarikhi romani) written in Uyghur and completed in 1998, about Afaq Khoja, the famous Sufi who ruled over Kashgharia in the late seventeenth century, along with other novels dealing with his ancestors (the Makhdumzadas) and his heirs (the so called Turghaq Khojalar). The two-volume book is a highly critical narrative of Sufi holy men in Eastern Turkestan; it belongs to a subgenre that I suggest to call ‘anti-hagiographic literature’.
Text and translation of the biography of Aḥmad Afandī al-Talālī, by Šuʿayb b. Idrīs al-Bāginī.
Text and translation of the autobiography of Šuʿayb b. Idrīs al-Bāgīnī.
Russian-language text and English translation of the biography of Shaykh Sa‘id Afandi of Chirkey.
Global commentary of the three biographies presented in parts 1 through 3.
Transcription, translation and commentary of the undated autographic manuscript entitled ‘Draft of the Diwan of Poems by Damulla Iskandar Bidaki Qarategini’.