THE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS IN ALBANIA

OMAR - An Online Database for Oriental Manuscripts

OMAR (Oriental Manuscript Resource) [11] is a database which provides extensive search facilities for oriental manuscripts. It is currently based on the collections of the Oriental Seminar at the University of Freiburg which comprise about 2.500 manuscripts. These are stored as images.

Oriental Manuscripts and New Information Technologies

Attention! This is a special internet edition of the article " Digitization of Tocharian Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection " by Jost Gippert (1998). It should not be quoted as such. For quotations, please refer to the original edition in

Oriental Rugs in the American Market

After the World War II was over, and due to the relative peace of mind, a population explosion occurred and baby boomers were born. This generation which is called “Generation X” entered the 80’s as the buyers of homes and consumers of furniture, bed, mattress and rugs. This was one of the reasons for huge increase in demand for Oriental rugs of the 80’s. In this short a...

The History of Uighur script and calligraphy in Persian manuscripts

  Abstract After Mongol invasion into Iranian plateau new cultural elements entered by the invaders which influenced on some aspects of Persian book art. Uighur script which first was used to write Mongol and then eastern Turkish languages, appeared in Persian Manuscripts which were produced for Timurid governors and some of famous works are remained from Yazd, Herat, Guilan and Shiraz. These...

Rethinking Philosophy in an Oriental Way