The CENTRAL EURASIAN READER publishes, every two years, a set of critical notices on books, collective volumes, and isolated papers of scientific character published on the mediaeval, modern and contemporary Islamic-background societies and minority groups of Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China). Disciplines covered by the journal are epistemology, bibliography, geography, history, history of sciences, history of techniques, history of art, philosophy, studies on religions, linguistics, history of literature, anthropology, sociology, economy, political science. The journal is edited in English in Paris by an international team of collaborators, and published by the Oxiana Foundation / Fondation Transoxiane with the support of the CNRS (Combined Research Team UMR 8032 “Turkic and Ottoman Studies,” Paris) and of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Direction of Archaeology and Social Sciences).weiterlesen