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| Nicole Willock | August 2011 | The Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in Modern China |
| Tristra Newyear | May 2010 | The Drama of Enlightenment. The Discourse of Darkness: Buryat Grassroots Theater, 1908-1930 |
| Zuleyha Colak | May 2010 | Romancing the Female Role in Ottoman Joseph and Zulaykha Mesnevs: Taşlicali Yahyā’s Yūsuf u Zelīhā |
Isik Kuscu |
December 2008 |
Kazakhstan’s Oralman Project: A Remedy for Ambiguous Identity? |
Idil Tuncher Kilavuz |
August 2007 |
Understanding Violent Conflict: A Comparative Study of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan |
James Schelble |
May 2007 |
The Marketization of Education in Hungary: Education and Social Mobility in Theory and Practice |
Anya King |
February 2007 |
The Musk Trade and the Near East in the Early Medieval Period |
Brian Baumann |
October 2005 |
Divine Knowledge: Buddhist Mathematics According to Antoine Mostaert's Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination |
Mariya Niendorf |
May 2005 |
Investigating the Future of Finnish Congruency: Focus on Possessive Morphology |
Ron Sela |
October 2004 |
Central Asia in the 18th Century, the Age of Introspection |
Lauran Hartley |
June 2003 |
Contextually Speaking: Tibetan Literary Discourse and Social change in the People's Republic of China (1980-2000) |
Thomas Cooper |
May 2003 |
Construction of the Psychological Novel: Mimesis of Consciousness in the Novels of Zsigmond Kemény |
Dan Prior |
August 2002 |
The Twilight Age of the Kirghiz Epic Tradition |
Peter Marsh |
May 2002 |
Moving the World Through Two Strings: the Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia |
Yilmaz Bingol |
February 2002 |
Revisiting Turkish Language Policy in Light of the Actors’ Norms and Identity Model |
Alexsandr Naymark |
August 2001 |
Sogdiana, Its Christians and Byzantium: A Study of Artistic and Cultural Connections in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages |
Elizabeth Constantine |
August 2001 |
Public Discourse and Private Lives: Uzbek Women under Soviet Rule, 1917-1991 |
John Erickson |
April 2001 |
Language Contact and Morphosyntactic Change: Shift of Case-Marker Functions in Turkic |
Lynne Thornton Sasmazer |
December 2000 |
Provisioning Istanbul: Break Production, Power, and Political Ideology in the Ottoman Empire, 1789-1807 |
Halim Kara |
October 2000 |
Resisting Narratives: Reading Abdulhamid Suleymon Cholpan from a Postcolonial Perspective |
Carl Johan Elverskog |
September 2000 |
Buddhism, History & Power: The Jewel Translucent Sutra and the Formation of Mongol Identity |
Talant Mawkanuli |
December 1999 |
The Phonology and Morphology of Jungar Tuva |
Jonathan Thurman |
December 1999 |
Modes of Organization in Central Asian Irrigation: The Ferghana Valley, 1876 to Present |
William Wood |
February 1999 |
The Sariq Turkmens of Merv and the Khanate of Khiva in the Early Nineteenth Century |
Geoff Childs |
October 1998 |
A Cultural and Historical Analysis of Demographic Trends and Family Management Strategies Among the Tibetans of Nubri, Nepal |
Zsuzsanna Gulácsi |
August 1998 |
Medieval Manichaean Book Art: A Study of Design, Function, and Origin of Manichaean Book Illumination |
Carolyn Shields |
May 1998 |
From Fortress to Monastery: The Evolution of Tibetan Temple and Monastic Architecture |
Shahyar Daneshgar |
July 1995 |
Azerbaijani Proverbs: Collection and Analysis (Formal and Thematic) |
Kristina Rusnik |
June 1995 |
The Serbs of Hungary Ethnicity and Government Policy in a Transitional Society |
Allen Frank |
July 1994 |
Islamic Regional Identity in Imperial Russia: Tatar and Bashkir Historiography in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |
Robert Doebler |
June 1994 |
Cities, Population Redistribution, and Urbanization in Mongolia: 1918-1990 |
Christopher Atwood |
May 1994 |
Revolutionary Nationalist Mobilization in Inner Mongolia, 1925-1929: Volume 1 and Volume 2 |
Noureddine Zahmoul |
March 1994 |
The Historical layers of the Selkup Vocabulary |
Tsuguhito Takeuchi |
February 1994 |
A Study of the Old Tibetan Contracts |
Kemal Silay |
June 1993 |
Nedim's New Discourse and the Poetics of the Ottoman Court: A Challenge to the Canon |
Karl Krippes |
June 1991 |
The Reconstruction of Proto-Mongolian *p- |
Nicola Di Cosmo |
November 1991 |
Inner Asia and the Hsiung-nu in Early Chinese Historiography |
Sharon Franklin-Rahkonen |
November 1991 |
Jewish Identity in Finland |
Todd Gibson |
October 1991 |
The Cult of the btsan: archaic consciousness in Tibetan Religion |
Harri William Murk |
May 1991 |
The Structure and Development of Estonian Morphology (2 parts) |
Gregory Nehler |
May 1991 |
Babits on Ady: A Study in Hungarian Literary Criticism |
Daniel Preston Martin |
May 1991 |
Buddha's Dividing Legacy: Gshen-chen Klu-dga' and the Tibetan Polemical Tradition |
Wonsoo, Yu |
February 1991 |
A Study of Mongolian Negation |
Yael Bentor |
January 1991 |
The Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Consecration Ritual for Stupas, Images, Books, and Temples |
Thomas Mark Skallerup |
June 1990 |
Artisans Between Guilds and Cooperatives: A History of Social and Economic Change in Russian Turkestan and Soviet Central Asia, 1865-1928 |
Alicia Campi |
March 1988 |
The Political Relationship between the U.S. and Outer Mongolia 1915-1927: The Kalgan Consular Records |
Ruth Meserve |
July 1987 | An Historical Perspective of Mongol Horse Training, Care, and Management: Selected Texts |
Douglas A. Howard |
November 1987 |
The Ottoman Timar System and its Transformation, 1563-1656 |
John Thomas Ririe |
February 1987 |
The Effects of Ottoman Expansionism on q Hungarian State Policy, 1365-1526 |
Michael Drompp |
June 1986 |
The Writings of Li Te-Yü as Sources for the History of T'ang Inner Asian Relations |
Devin DeWeese |
August 1985 |
The Kashf Al-Huda of Kamal Ad-Din Husayn Khorezmi: A Fifteenth-Century Sufi Commentary on the Qasidat Al-Burdah in Khorezmian Turkic |
William Dinsmoor |
June 1985 |
Mongol Housing: With an Emphasis on Architectural Forms of the Ger |
Jiunn-Yih Chang |
December 1984 |
The Relationship Between the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the Tibetan Sa Skya Sect |
William S. Peachy |
September 1984 |
A Year in Selânikî's History: 1593-94 |
Bruce Lippard |
May 1984 |
The Mongols and Byzantium, 1243-1341 |
Janet M. Novey |
December 1983 |
Yü Ching, a Northern Sung Statesman, and His Treatise on the Ch'i-Tan Bureaucracy |
William Rozycki |
October 1983 |
Mongol Elements in Manchu-Tungus |
Elliot H. Sperling |
July 1983 |
Early Ming Policy in Tibet: An Examination of the Proposition that the Early Ming Emperors Implemented a "Divide and Rule" Policy Toward Tibet |
Andras Boros-Kazai |
December 1982 |
Populists and Urbanists: Cultural Trends in Hungarian Literature Around the Turn of the Century |
Donald E. Bjarnson |
November 1982 |
Teaching Estonian to Americans: A Comparison of Two Methods |
Paul A. Draghi |
December 1980 |
A Comparative Study of the Theme of the Conversion of a Hunter in Tibetan, Bhutanese, and Medieval European Sources |
Douglas Pauley |
June 1980 | German Loan Words in Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian |
Michael L. Walter |
May 1980 |
The Role of Alchemy and Medicine in Indo-Tibetan Tantrism |
Samuel M. Grupper |
March 1980 |
The Manchu Imperial Cult of the Early Ch'ing Dynasty: Texts and Studies of the Tantric Sanctuary of Mahakala at Mukden |
David R. Komito |
August 1979 |
A Study of Nagarjuna's 'Sunyata-Saptati-Karika-Nama |
Bess Ann Brown |
March 1979 |
The Emancipation of the Peasants of North Hungary in 1848: A Study in Social Reform and Nationalism |
Sabri Akural |
February 1979 |
Ziya Gökalp: The Influence of his Thought on Kemalist Reforms |
Sang-il Lee |
January 1978 |
An Examination of Studies in Korean Etymology by G. J. Ramstedt |
Christopher Beckwith |
November 1977 |
A Study of the Early Medieval Chinese, Latin, and Tibetan Historical Sources on Pre-Imperial Tibet |
Thomas Ewing |
November 1977 |
Chinese and Russian Policies in Outer Mongolia, 1911 to 1921 |
Stephen Halkovic |
September 1977 |
Studies in Oirat Historiography: An Annotated Translation of Xalimaq Xadiyin Tuujiyigi Xuraji Bicigsen Tobci Orosibai |
Gary Houston |
December 1975 |
Sources for a History of the Bsam Yas Debate |
Larry Clark |
August 1975 |
Introduction to the Uyghur Civil Documents of East Turkestan (13th-14th Centuries) |
Laszlo Medyesy |
May 1975 |
The Evolution of the Socialist 'New Man' in Hungary. A Study of Political Socialization of the post-1956 Generation |
George L. Penrose |
April 1975 |
The Politics of Genealogy: An Historical Analysis of Abu'l-Gazi's Shejere-I Terakima |
Michael Miller |
August 1974 |
The Karamanly-Turkish Texts: The Historical Changes in their Script and Phonology |
Juta Kitching |
August 1974 |
Local Status and Case in Estonian and English |
Lajos Kazar |
August 1974 |
Uralic-Japanese Linguistic Relations: A Preliminary Investigation |
Gisaburo Kiyose |
May 1973 |
A Study of the Jurchen Language and Script in the Hua-I I-Yu, with Special Reference to the Problem of its Decipherment |
Stanley Frye |
June 1973 |
The Sutra of Forty-Two Sections |
Ralph Larson |
August 1972 |
A Study of American Influences in the Finnish Trade Union Movement from 1890 to 1920 |
Larry Moses |
June 1972 |
Lamaism or Leninism: Revolutionary Mongolia Chooses a Faith |
David Montgomery |
January 1972 |
Some Characteristics of a Basic Vocabulary for the Soviet Uzbek Literary Language |
Charles VanTuyl |
June 1971 |
An Analysis of Chapter Twenty-Eight of the Hundred Thousand Songs of Mila Raspa, A Buddhist Poet and Saint of Tibet |
Charles F. Carlson |
June 1971 |
A Semantic Analysis of Proto-Finno-Ugric |
John G. Hangin |
June 1970 |
The Literary Position of Injannasi's Köke Sudur (The Blue Chronicle) |
Harold Battersby |
June 1969 |
The Uzbek Novel as a Source of Information Concerning Material Culture |
