Manuscripta Orientalia. International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research. Vol. 30 No. 1 2024
CONTENTS
AUTHORS
Dr. Kaliolla S. Akhmetzhan — Leading Researcher at the Margulan Institute of Archaeology, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Expert in the history of weapons and military art of Kazakhs and nomads in general, as well as in the history of traditional art. Author of more than 100 articles and six monographs on this topic.
Dr. Nurlan A. Atygayev — Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow at the Eurasian Research Institute of the Khoja Ahmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University; Head of the Department of Ancient and Medieval History of Kazakhstan at Abai KNPU, Almaty, Kazakhstan. Author of three monographs on the medieval history of Kazakhstan.
Dr. Rostislav V. Berezkin — Senior Research Fellow, National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Fudan University, China, Shanghai. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Candidate of Sciences degree from St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Main fields of research: religious storytelling literature (“precious scrolls” in particular) and popular religion in late imperial China (14th — early 20th centuries). His publications include two monographs in Russian and one in English and a number of articles in English, Russian and Chinese.
Mustafa Dehqan — independent researcher with great interest in Kurdish history and textual tradition. Aside numerous published works in the field, he is now working on a new edition of the “Sharaf-nama” to be published by the AustrianAcademy of Sciences.
Dr. Zarine A. Dzhandosova — Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Central Asia, and the Caucasus, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg StateUniversity. A specialist in the history and culture of Iran and Central Asia.
Dr. Luiza A. Gasparyan — Research Associate at the Institute of Literature named after M. Abeghyan of the National Academy of Sciences, and a specialist in the field of Armenian literature and its connections with other literary traditions. She is the author of a series of research works on this subject.
Tatiana Krupa — an archeologist and a restorer, Head of “Umai” International Research Laboratory at MargulanUniversity, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. Her research interests encompass the Great Silk Road, the investigation and preservation of archaeological textiles, and the ancient and medieval history of Central Asia.
Dr. Anna Yu. Kudriavtceva — Senior Researcher of the International Centre for Islamic Studies, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). Specialist in Qur’anic and Islamic studies, the Qur’an and pre-Islamic poetry, Muslim ritual.
Artyom V. Mesheznikov — Junior Researcher of the HerzenState Pedagogical University of Russia (St. Petersburg). Specialist in Ancient and Early Medieval Sanskrit manuscripts from Central Asia.
Dr. Valeria A. Prischepova — Senior Researcher of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), RussianAcademy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). Specialist in ethnography of Central Asia. Author of the series of works on the Museum collections on the region.
Prof. Dr. Efim A. Rezvan — Editor-in-Chief, Manuscripta Orientalia, International Journal for Oriental Manuscripts Research, Director, International Centre for Islamic Studies, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg); Professor of UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, Russian Scientific Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage named after D. Likhachev.
Dr. Safarali H. Shomakhmadov — Senior Researcher of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, RussianAcademy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia). Specialist in Central Asian Buddhist manuscripts.
Olga P. Slepukhina — Junior Research Fellow, International Centre for Islamic Studies, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). Research interests: Arabic studies, South Arabia, local identities, digital ethnography.
Dr. Oleg A. Sokolov — Researcher of the Research Laboratory for Analysis and Modeling of Social Processes, Associate Professor of the Department of Arabic Philology, Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg State University. Specialist in Crusading history, Islamic studies and Arab culture.
Dr. Omir O. Tuyakbay — Researcher at the ResearchCenter “Written Monuments and Spiritual Heritage” at Al-FarabiKazakhNationalUniversity in Almaty, Kazakhstan. A specialist in Turkic and Islamic studies.
Dr. Olga M. Yastrebova — Senior Researcher of the Manuscript Department, National Library of Russia; Associate Professor of the Department of Iranian Philology of the Faculty of Asian and African Studies, St. Petersburg State University. Specialist in classical Persian literature, Islamic palaeography and codicology.
Notes to Contributors
Manuscripts must be written in English.
Manuscripts must be clearly typewritten with numbered pages. The title should be as brief and informative as possible. The institutution at which the work has been done should be indicated at the head of each paper. Authors are requested to include their e-mail address if one is available.
Submissions
Manuscripts should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Efim A. Rezvan, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Universitetskaya nab., 199034, St. Petersburg, Russia, e-mail: efim.rezvan@mail.ru | 
