- Journal of Old Turkic Studies
- Vol: 6 Issue: 2
- Mixed Texts and Bilingual Examples from Old Uygur Civil Documents
Mixed Texts and Bilingual Examples from Old Uygur Civil Documents
Authors : Osman Fikri Sertkaya
Pages : 572-585
Doi:10.35236/jots.1135552
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Publication Date : 2022-07-19
Article Type : Research
Abstract :Prof. Dr. Reşid Rahmeti Arat is the great Turkish scholar in the field of Old Turkic philology and engaged with a lot of the Old Uygur secular documents in the German-Turfan collection during his study at Berlin from 1928 to 1933. He made many photographic reproductions of the Uygur secular documents and transported the photographs with himself to Istanbul. Many original Uygur documents got lost during the World War II. Because of this the photographs taken by Arat have the great importance for Uyguristic.Keywords : Reşid Rahmeti Arat, Old Uygur, sivil documents