Introduction (English)

By focusing on the societal challenges reflected in Central Asian literary production, this new issue of the Cahiers d’Asie centrale would like to bring answers, as well as new kinds of questions regarding the way the various societies and peoples of this geographic area have depicted their history throughout time. Well before the appearance of Islam, the Silk Road was the means whereby not only goods transited through the major caravan cities, but also elements of civilisation, such as the U...