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2026-01-24
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SUGDIANS - A PEOPLE AT THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES
Narzullayeva Nasiba
Sharof Rashidov nomidagi Samarqand davlat universiteti Tarix fakulteti O’zbekiston tarixi kafedrasi II bosqich magistranti
##semicolon## ‘diylar, savdo, diaspora, mobilitet, sinkretizm, estetik, ikonografiya, arxeologiya, yozuv, til, san’at, madaniyat, tarix, din, kosmopolitizm, almashinuv, meros, ierarxiya, identitet, gibridlik.
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This article is an analytical translation of the scientific article “Who Were the Sogdians, and Why Do They Matter?” by Judith A. Lerner and Thomas Wide into Uzbek. The article examines the role of the Sogdian civilization on the Silk Roads, their trade activities, cultural and religious diversity, and their contribution to art and literature, as well as how they disappeared from historical memory and were rediscovered through modern research. The article also considers the significance of the Sogdian culture, which was formed on the principles of mobility, openness to intercultural contacts, and cosmopolitanism, in today's global historical context. The article analyzes the Sogdian heritage within the framework of modern scientific approaches - mobility, hybridity, and transcultural contacts.
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1. Sören Stark (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University) describes the Sogdians’ network of commercial relationships across Asia.
2. Sören Stark (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University) discusses what first drew him to the study of the Sogdians.
3. Judith A. Lerner (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University) discusses relationships between the Sogdians and Chinese.
4. After Annette L. Juliano and Judith A. Lerner. Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th-7th Century (New York: Harry N. Abrams and Asia Society Museum, 2001), p. 255, no. 82.
5. Nicholas Sims-Williams (School of Oriental and African Studies) discusses the Sogdian texts that have survived to this day.
6. Judith A. Lerner (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University) describes the “Sogdian aesthetic.”
7. Letter written by a Sogdian woman to her mother, lamenting that her husband had deserted her. One of the oldest substantial texts in Sogdian, it was discovered by Sir M. Aurel Stein in 1907 at an abandoned watchtower in western China.
8. Aurel Stein’s view of Mogao Cave 16, in Dunhuang 敦煌, Gansu Province 甘肅省, China, with a number of manuscripts from Cave 17 bundled on the floor.
9. The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads is organized by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
10. Lerner, J. A., & Wide, T. (2021). Who Were the Sogdians, and Why Do They Matter? Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. [Online exhibition essay].
