INTRODUCTION Zsuzsanna Gulacsi, Johan Elvesrkog, and Geoff Childs, "Larry Clark as a Teacher and Mentor" Marcel Erdal and Jason BeDuhn, "The Scholarship of Larry Clark" Jason BeDuhn, "Chapters of this Book" CHAPTER 1: LANGUAGE Chris Beckwith,"Ethnolinguistic identity of the Hsiung- nu" Simone-Christiane Raschmann, "A previously unpublished Old Uyghur document" Elisabetta Ragagnin,"The puzzling Tuha of East khovsgol Aimag" Mehmet Olmez, "What language is Manichaean Uighur?" Klaus Rohrborn, A topic of Turkic linguistics Jens Wilkens, A topic of Turkic linguistics Talant Mawkanuli, A topic of Uygur linguistics CHAPTER 2: GOVERNMENT Michael Drompp "The Xin Tang shu account of the Qirqiz" Peter Zieme, Bagrak Tutun and his family. Notes on an Old Uigur colophon. Geoff Childs, "Tibetan Civil Documents in Nubri, Nepal: Continuity amidst Political Change Johan Elvesrkog, "The Uygurs in Mongol Historiography" Sam Lieu, "Between Byzantium and the Turks - Kallipolis / Gallipoli / Gelibolu (1307-1402) Kemal Silay, A topic of Ottoman history CHAPTER 3: RELIGION Zsuzsanna Gulacsi, "Mani's Book of Pictures in late Antiquity" Yutaka Yoshida, "Some aspects of the latest phase of Central Asian Manichaeism" Nick Sims-Williams, "A multilingual Manichaean calendar from Turfan" Marcel Erdal, "The versions of the Treatise on the Eight Aggregates of Light" Jason BeDuhn, "Manichaean Pantheism in its Uygur Setting" BIBLIOGRAPHY Combined from all contributions.