Die ersten manichaischen Originaltexte, die vor fast 100 Jahren ans Licht kamen, stammten aus dem Ostuigurischen Konigreich und von der ostlichen Seidenstrasse, wo der Manichaismus vom 8. bis zum 10 Jh. bluhte. Diese Texte waren eine wissenschaftliche Sensation ersten Ranges und wurden von Le Coq bis zum Ende der zwanziger Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts der Offentlichkeit zuganglich gemacht. Le Coqs Editionen waren mustergultig fur ihre Zeit, sind aber heute in weiten Teilen uberholt. Der Charakter des ostlichen Manichaismus, der iranische Einfluss im uigurischen Manichaismus und die Gattungen der manichaisch-uigurischen Literatur werden in der Einleitung vorgestellt und diskutiert. Vor jedem Text gibt die Autorin eine Forschungsgeschichte des Textes sowie eine Beschreibung des Inhalts und der Orthographie. Die reedierten Texte werden erstmals in Transliteration, Transkription und mit einer neuen Ubersetzung vorgelegt. Die Autorin hat die gesamte weitlaufige turkologische und iranistische Literatur ausgewertet und zahlreiche Textverbesserungen vorgenommen. Philologische Anmerkungen (in turkischer Sprache), eine Bibliographie und ein Index beschliessen das Werk.

Providing a multifaceted view of modern Finland, this book describes its history, culture, language, geography, natural history and the mythology of early peoples. Topics include Fenno-Scandia inhabitants and their environment, traditional naturalism and modern environmentalism, and the salient features of "Finnishness," including an analysis of the Finnish educational system and gender equality. Finland's art, architecture and music are highlighted, along with its peace-keeping missions worldwide. The country's several ethnic groups and their languages are discussed--the Saami, Finns, Finland-Swedes, Russian-speaking peoples, Jews and Gypsies. The author examines Finland's late but rapid development in commerce and industry, with a focus on the history of Nokia Corporation, which grew from a 19th-century manufacturer of pulpwood and rubber boots to a 21st-century international digital communications company.

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Chinggis Khan and his progeny ruled over two-thirds of Eurasia. Connecting East, West, North and South, the Mongols integrated most of the Old World, promoting unprecedented cross-cultural contacts and triggering the reshuffle of religious, ethnic, and geopolitical identities. The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire studies the Empire holistically in its full Eurasian context, putting the Mongols and their nomadic culture at the center. Written by an international team of more than forty leading scholars, this two-volume set provides an authoritative and multifaceted history of 'the Mongol Moment' (1206–1368) in world history and includes an unprecedented survey of the various sources for its study, textual (written in sisteen languages), archaeological, and visual. This groundbreaking Cambridge History sets a new standard for future study of the Empire. It will serve as the fundamental reference work for those interested in Mongol, Eurasian, and world history.

The ERC-funded research project BuddhistRoad aims to create a new framework to enable understanding of the complexities in the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer in pre-modern Eastern Central Asia. Buddhism was one major factor in this exchange: for the first time the multi-layered relationships between the trans-regional Buddhist traditions (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and those based on local Buddhist cultures (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut) will be explored in a systematic way. The second volume Buddhism in Central Asia II—Practice and Rituals, Visual and Materials Transfer based on the mid-project conference held on September 16th–18th, 2019, at CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) focuses on two of the six thematic topics addressed by the project, namely on "practices and rituals", exploring material culture in religious context such as mandalas and talismans, as well as “visual and material transfer”, including shared iconographies and the spread of ‘Khotanese’ themes.