The language and culture of Old Uyghurs 09-JKDU-12

http://azjatystyka.amu.edu.pl/dok/TPS2015.pdf

1. The history of the Old Turks, the Old Uyghurs and the Old Kirghiz.
2. The relations between the Old Uyghurs, the Soghdian, the Tocharians and the Mongols.
3. Material culture of the Old Uyghurs.
4. Spiritual culture of Old Uyghurs.
5. Manichaeism, Buddhism and Christianity.
6. The literature of Old Uyghurs.

Module learning aims

1. Teaching the history of Old Turkic peoples. 2. Outline of the history of research and main research centres, as well as methods. 3. Ability to read Soghdian, Uyghur and Nestorian scripts. 4. Material and spiritual culture of Old Uyghurs. 5. Contact of Old Uyghurs with neigbouring peoples.

Information on where to find course materials

Library: Filologiczna Novum; Section: Języki Różne, Collegium Novum, AMU http://vatec2.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de; http://idp.bl.uk; http://www.mq.edu.au/research/centres_and_groups/ancient_cultures_research_centre/research/cultural_ex_silkroad/corpus_fontium_manichaeorum/.

Major

Philology Turkic Studies

Methods of teaching for learning outcomes achievement

– transfer of knowledge, using maps – teaching the scripts and their reading, demonstrating manuscripts – teaching how to use dictionaries – teaching and exercising transliteration – teaching and exercising transcription, understanding texts and translation

Student workload (ECTS credits)

Classwork hours with the teacher – 30 Student's own work – 15 Preparation for class – 15 Getting credits – 5 In total – 60

Module type

compulsory

Year of studies (where relevant)

Year 3

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences

Competence in Turkish, level B1 Passing the subject Introduction to Turkic Studies

Course coordinators

Henryk Jankowski

Learning outcomes

The student:
– is able to characterize the literary culture of Old Turks, Old Uyghurs and Old Kirghiz;
– knows the role of religion;
– is able to read Old Uyghur texts, understand them and translate;
– knows how to use Clasuon's dictionary;
– knows transliteration;
– knows international and Turkish transcriptions.

Assessment criteria

– competence in reading
– competence in understanding
– competence in translating
– knowledge of the subject
– preparation for classwork, including copying of an original text, its reading, transcription and translation

Bibliography

Adam, Volker, Jens Peter Laut, Andreas Weiss. 2000. Bibliographie alttürkischer Studien. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz [the years 1820–1999].
Aydın, Erhan. 2011. Uygur Kağanlığı Yazıtları. Kömen Yayınları.
Clausen, Sir Gerard. 1972. An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish. London: Oxford UP (at the Clarendon Press).
Erdal, Marcel. 1991. Old Turkic Word Formation. A Functional Approach to the Lexicon. Vol. I-II. Wiesbaden: O. Harrassowitz.
Erdal, Marcel. 2004. A Grammar of Old Turkic. Leiden: Brill.
Gabain, A. von. 1950. Alttürkische Grammatik. Lepzig: Otto Harrassowitz [1st edition 1941, 3rd edition 1974].
Gabain, Annemarie. 1961. Das uigurische Königtum von Chotscho, 950–1250. Berlin: Sitzungberichte der Deutschen Akadamie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Klasse für Sprachen, Literatur und Kunst.
Laut, Jens Peter. 1986. Der frühe türkische Buddhismus und seine literarische Dankmäler. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
Le Coq, A v. 1919. Kurze Einführung in die uigurische Schriftkunde. Mit 7 Tafeln. Berlin [pp. 1–17+7 tables, an offprint from MSOS 11, 93–109].
Zieme, Peter. 1991. Die Stabreimtexte der Uiguren von Turfan und Dunhuang. Studien zur Alttürkischen Dichtung. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
Websites
http://idp.bl.uk (The International Dunghuang Project)
VATEC: http://vatec2.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de (many Old Turkic texts from pre-Islamic period is available at this website; the texts include Buddhistic literature, e.g. Altïn Yaruq, Xuanzang Biography, Maitrisimit; Manichaean, e.g. Chuastaunift; some Nestorian Christian texts; and Ïrq Bitig ‘Book of omens’.)

Additional information

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