CONTENTS:
HISTORY. ARCHAEOLOGY. ETHNOGRAPHY
- S.G. Klyashtorny
Runic Relics of the Uigur Epoch as a Historical Source6
- R.G. Bukanova
One of the Bashkir Cities in the Missionary lohanca's Description13
- M.V. Murzabulatov
The Maris, the Mordvinians and the Udmurts in the Republic of Bashkortostan16
LITERATURE. FOLKLORE. ART
- R.B. Akhmadiev, E.I. Kashfeeva
Mustai Karim's Publicism20
- L.R. Koulakovskaya
The Yakut Scholar and Writer Alexey Koulakovsky's Creative and Scientific Biography: New Research Aspects 24
- M.L. Akhmadullin
Constructivism in the Arabic Alphabet Books of Bashkortostan (the 1920s)29
LINGUISTICS
- B.Z. Shakurov
The Toponymic Heritage of Bashkortostan and Problems of Its Investigation34
- Sh.V. Nafiqoff
The Bashkir Material from "Etymological Dictionary of Altaic Languages"40
- G.R. Ilyasova
"Risala-i Gaziza" and "Sabat al-gadzhizin" as Relics of the Turki in the Volga-Urals Region and Middle Asia48
- M.V. Zainullin
Akhnef Yuldashev and His Contribution to Turkic Linguistics56
JURISPRUDENCE. POLITICAL SCIENCE
- V.K. Samigullin
Nasiraddin Tusi as a Luminary of the Legal Thinking in the Medieval East58
- R.G. Sharipov
On the Problem of Ethnopolitical Processes in the Post-Soviet Central Asia63
SCIENCE TODAY
- N.A. Mazhitov
A Book That Raises a Lot of Questions68
YOUNGER GENERATION
- A.Sh. Yarmullin
The Institution of Regimental Mullahs in Bashkir Troops during the Civil War76
- L.I. Marakanova
Reflection of the Urbanization Process in Contemporary Bashkir Prose82
BOOK REVIEWS
G.G. Salikhov. Man of the Epoch of Globalization87- .
T.M. Aminov. An Anthology of Muslim Education History in the Republic of Bashkortostan
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EVENTS
The 7th Congress of Russian Orientalists (Zvenigorod, September 13-16, 2010)91
Topical Problems on Dialectology of the Peoples of Russia: The 10th Regional Scientific Conference (Ufa, September 21-23, 2010)102
JUBILEES
Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Bashkortostan Uzbek G. Gusmanov is 75106
Rules for Authors108
Our Authors110
