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The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, and the Invisible East Programme, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford jointly present
“Chinese Documents on the Qarakhanids”
Dr. Dilnoza Duturaeva, University of York
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 12:00 p.m. Toronto/5:00 p.m. UK
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Abstract:
Chinese sources are rarely considered when studying early Islamic Central Asia. In this talk, Dilnoza Duturaeva presents a selection of Chinese diplomatic and administrative documents (letters, edicts, reports, etc.) related to Qarakhanid activities in China. These materials reveal how the Qarakhanids organised and managed long-distance trade and invite us to reconsider the history of the Qarakhanids and the wider world of early Islamic Central Asia.
Bio:
Dilnoza Duturaeva is a historian of Central Asia and China and a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of York. She is the author of Qarakhanid Roads to China (Brill, 2022), which explores Qarakhanid diplomacy and trade along the Silk Roads. She graduated from Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies and received her PhD from the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. Before joining York, she held research fellowships in Paris, Bonn, Nanjing, and Tashkent.