Tysyacheletnyaya Istoriya Goroda Osh

V nastoyashchey rabote sobrany i prokommentirovany raznozhanrovye istochniki po istorii drevneyshego goroda Osh. Opirayas' na mnogochislennye stochniki, raskryvayutsya razlichnye storony sotsial'no-ekonomicheskikh,torgovykh, kul'turnykh otnosheniy goroda. Osh i Oshskiy oazis - eto odno iz tekh redkikh mest, gde na protyazhenii mnogikh vekov tesno perepletalis' interesy takikh krupnykh etnosov kak indoevropeytsy, irantsy, tyurki, mongoly, russkie i dr. Zdes' mirno sosushchestvovali, a vremenami zhestoko protivostoyali drug drugu chetyre mirovykh religii: zoroastrizm, buddizm, khristianstvo i islam. Osh neodnokratno vystupal kak vazhnyy voenno-strategicheskiy, torgovo-ekonomicheskiy, kul'turnyy tsentr, podderzhival kontakty so mnogimi stranami mira, blagodarya Velikomu Shelkovomu puti. Nemalovazhnuyu rol' sygral prirodnyy mayak - Suleyman-Too, kotoraya snachala byla svyashchennym mestom zoroastriytsev, a zatem musul'man. Pozdnee ona poluchila status Maloy Mekki. Kniga prednaznachena studentam, prepodavatelyam, spetsialistam po istochnikovedeniyu, istoriografii, shirokomu krugu chitateley, interesuyushchikhsya istoriey goroda Osh i kyrgyzskogo naroda v tselom.