History and Culture of Central Asia (Summer term 2025)Samarkand Sogdia: A Study Based on Written and Cartographic SourcesA lecture by Alisher Sandiboev, Senior Research Fellow at the Samarqand Institute of Archaeology in Uzbekistan

10 June 2025

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The Asien Afrika Institute Hamburg and the Imam Bukhari Institute in Samarqand would like to invite you to the next lecture in our series on the History and Culture of Central Asia, with a special focus on the Zerafshan Valley. The Third lecture of this semester, "Samarkand Sogdia: A Study Based on Written and Cartographic Sources" will be presented by Dr. Alisher Sandiboev, Senior Research Fellow at the Samarqand Institute of Archaeology in Uzbekistan.

• Topic: Samarkand Sogdia: A Study Based on Written and Cartographic Sources
• Speaker: Dr. Alisher Sandiboev, Senior Research Fellow at the Samarqand Institute of Archaeology in Uzbekistan
• When?: June 10th, 2025, 2:00 PM CET (Germany), 5:00 PM Tashkent Time, 8:00 AM EDT (American East Coast)
• Where?: Online via ZOOM

Why to listen to Dr. Sandiboev:
Alisher Sandiboev conducts research on Sogdian culture during the Early and High Middle Ages. He is involved in several archaeological missions at major early medieval sites in Central Transoxiana. These includes the Quldotepe and Qurqontepe Buddhist Sanctuaries (Tajjikistan), as well as large monuments such as Kofirqala (Tajiskistan) and Rabinjan (Uzbekistan). He is currently working as research fellow in a Japanese-Uzbek cooperation project “Craft Production in Early Medieval Central Asia: Locating Centers of Textile, Silk and Fabric Manufacture.

Participation:
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