SRII Celebrates its 50th Anniversary
1 June, 2012
The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul – SRII – is an institute for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research in a Turkish and Eurasian perspective. The aim of SRII is to promote academic research on Turkey, the Middle East and Central Asia, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Fields of study represented at the Institute are first and foremost Turkic and West Asian Languages and Literatures, Archaeology, Classical and Byzantine Studies, Art and Architectural History, General History, with the emphasis on Ottoman and modern Turkish history, Religion, Anthropology, Sociology, Educational Studies, and Political Science, including International Relations.
A New Book Collection to SRII
A collection of Central Asia publications originating from the private library of the diplomat and Turkologist Gunnar Jarring (1907–2002) has been donated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities to SRII/Istanbul. The collection consists of almost 5000 volumes, a number of manuscripts, catalogues and maps as well as more than 3000 offprints. All of the most renowned accounts of expeditions to Central Asia from the late 19th and early 20th centuries can be found here, along with a great number of less known accounts, some of which are very rare and accessible at just a few or perhaps even no other libraries in the world. After transportation to Istanbul in the spring of 2012, it will be set up as a special section of the SRII Library.
The secret report of a journey to the Kashgar region
by Lieutenant Gronbchevskiy in the year 1885.