Three Open Access Books on the Silk Roads: by UNESCO

 

"The most astonishing innovations and fusions of the world’s religions, beliefs, and material cultures have occurred along the trade and communication networks between Asia, Africa, and Europe, known today as the Silk Roads. The empires and dynasties, fluctuating like ebbs and flows, triggered waves of cultural interchange across time and space, connected by caravans of knowledge and technological transfers crossing vast distances over barren steppes, impenetrable deserts, and unsurmountable ranges. This three-part volume on Architecture, Monuments and Urbanism explores cities and ports from Nanjing to Seville and Karakorum to Mumbai as individual pearls in a long string of historical vicissitudes and cultural exchanges across the overland Silk Roads and maritime Silk Routes." 

Architecture, monuments and urbanism, Part I: Architectural influences along the Silk Roads

Editors: Paskaleva, Elena; Turner, Michael 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54678/JNRQ3162

ISBN: 978-92-3-100738-5

Collation: 343 pages : illustrations, maps

Language: English

Year of publication: 2025

Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

Architecture, monuments and urbanism, Part II: Cities on the overland Silk Roads

Editors: Paskaleva, Elena; Turner, Michael 

Series title and vol / issues: Thematic collection of the cultural exchanges along the Silk Roads 

DOI:https://doi.org/10.54678/VMIH5884

ISBN: 978-92-3-100738-5

Collation: 375 pages : illustrations, maps

Language: English

Year of publication: 2025

Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO 

Architecture, monuments and urbanism, Part III: Cultural networks and sea ports on the maritime Silk Routes

Editors: Paskaleva, Elena; Turner, Michael 

Series title and vol / issues: Thematic collection of the cultural exchanges along the Silk Roads

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54678/RUOM2593

ISBN: 978-92-3-100738-5

Collation: 347 pages : illustrations, maps

Language: English

Year of publication: 2025

Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO [14411]

The Analytical Database of Arabic Poetry

 "The Analytical Database of Arabic Poetry provides an innovative digital platform for research on the semantics of the Arabic language and the history of Arabic poetic tradition from late antiquity onwards. The development of the database was initiated in the research project “Language–Philology–Culture. Arab Cultural Semantics in Transition” 

The database includes:

Text corpus

Fully searchable texts of Arabic poetry in TEI/XML are provided with analytical data on authors, chronological periodisation, literary classification, geographical specification and semantic categorisation.

Dictionary

The historical dictionary implements comprehensive analytical tools and provides detailed information on the historical development of the vocabulary used in Arabic poetry and its various genres. Since there is neither a historical dictionary of Arabic nor a complete dictionary of classical Arabic in any European language, the database creates a unique and indispensable research tool on the semantics of Arabic.

Research data

Additional information tags and notes, a semantic register crosslinked with the Intercontinental Dictionary Series and detailed bibliographical information on sources used in the project provide research data making the database useful not just as an innovative literary and lexical source, but also as a reference work for wider research on Arabic literature, history and culture." 

Principal Investigator: Dr Kirill Dmitriev

Research project: Language–Philology–Culture. Arab Cultural Semantics in Transition.