Traditionally, there are three epic genres in Asia: Altaic, Persian, and subcontinental (of the Indian subcontinent). While the latter two have been studied to a certain extent, the Altaic genre, the origin of Turkic dastans, has been largely...

The word "Turk" refers to the members of the great linguistic and cultural family of Turkic peoples extending from China to Europe. Today there are two main groups of Turkic peoples: the western and the eastern. The eastern group is made...

TURKIC RELIGIONS. Throughout the course of their long history, the Turkic peoples have simultaneously or successively practiced all the universal religions (Christianity, especially Nestorian Christianity; Judaism; Manichaeism; Buddhism; and Mazdaism)...

The Turkic peoples are a group of peoples residing in northern, central and western Eurasia who speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family. These peoples share, to varying degrees, certain cultural traits and historical backgrounds. The...

In Defense of Assimilation How is "Jewish identity" to be defined? What does it mean to be Jewish? These have been burning issues for Jews, especially in the twentieth century, when the Nazis attempted to answer these questions and to eradicate both...

Arabic Grammars of Turkic. By ROBERT ERMERS. Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics. vol. 28. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1999. Pp. xv + 435. HFI 199, $117.25. "This study discusses the way Arabic grammarians analyse Turkic languages" (p. xiii). The book is...