CONTENTS of Vol.5 No.2

TEXTS AND MANUSCRIPTS: DESCRIPTION AND RESEARCH

B.Babajanov. Biographies of Makhdum-i A'zam al-Kasani al-Dahbidi, Shaykh of the Sixteenth-Century Naqshbandiya

S.Prozorov. A Unique Manuscript of a Biographical Dictionary by a Khorezmian Author

I.Kulganek. A Mongolian Folk Songs Collection in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies

M.Vorobyova-Desyatovskaya. A Sanskrit Manuscript on Birch-Bark from Bairam-Ali: I. The Vinaya of the Sarvastivadins

TEXT AND ITS CULTURAL INTERPRETATION

E.Rezvan. The Qur'(n and Its World. IX. The Triumph of Diversity: Muslim Exegesis

ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

E.Rezvan, N.Kondybaev. The ENTRAP Software: Test Results

PRESENTING THE MANUSCRIPT

T.Pang. A Manchu Manuscript on Acupuncture

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