Written Monuments of the OrientWritten Monuments of the OrientWritten Monuments of the Orient2410-0145“Nauka” Publishers: “Vostochnaya Literatura” (Oriental Literature) Publisher62330010.55512/wmo623300Original PapersResearch ArticleArabographic Manuscripts of the Akhty and Rutul Regions of the Republic of Dagestanhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0653-3970AnikeevaTatiana A.
Russian Federation

PhD in philology, Senior Researcher, Head of the Center of Islamic Manuscripts named after Sheikh Zayed

tatiana.anikeeva@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9362-8977ChmilevskayaIlona A.
Russian Federation

Research assistant at the Center of Islamic Manuscripts named after Sheikh Zayed

ilonach1905@mail.ruInstitute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences15122023921141211311202305122023Copyright ©; 2023, Anikeeva T.A., Chmilevskaya I.A.Copyright ©; 2023,2023Anikeeva T.A., Chmilevskaya I.A.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://journals.eco-vector.com/2410-0145/article/view/623300

The paper presents the results of two field expeditions in 2022–2023 to Southern Dagestan: within the framework of these archaeographic expeditions, the manuscript collection of the Akhty State Museum of Local Lore (village of Akhty, the Akhty district of the Republic of Dagestan), including manuscripts, documents, lithographs and early printed books in Arabic, Turkic and Persian languages, as well as a small private manuscript collection in the village of Khlyut (the Rutul district of the Republic of Dagestan) have been fully described and digitized. Materials of these collections allow us to draw a number of conclusions about the specifics of the transformation of intellectual tradition in Southern Dagestan, its differences and similarities compared with other regions of Dagestan, and the peculiarities of the distribution of manuscripts from the Middle East, Shirvan and the Ural-Volga region in this area.

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