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The Barmakids

14 July 2021
Invisible East director, Arezou Azad, appears in a Bodleian Library film about the Akhbār-i Barmakiyān manuscript
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Varieties of Middle Persian I: The Manichaean, Book Pahlavi and Inscriptional Scripts

02 July 2021
The first in a series of blogs about Middle Persian, by Thomas Benfey.
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An Arabic fragment from the 10th century

01 July 2021
An Arabic historical fragment reveals 10th century events 
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The Bonardi photo sheds light on 11th century Afghanistan

01 July 2021
We discuss this page long document, dated to Dhu al-qa'da 470 of the Islamic era, i.e. May or June 1078 C.E.
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Manuscript of the Week

02 October 2020
Invisible East postdoctoral researcher, Zhan Zhang, investigates "Hedin 24" and "Hedin 21" (8th century Khotanese documents)
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Earliest manuscript of Persian verse, from Afghanistan

03 September 2020