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Articles
Ashurov, B., 2015. ‘Sogdian Christian texts: socio-cultural observations’, Archiv orientální, 83(1) pp.53-70.
Ashurov, B. 2013. Tarsākyā: an analysis of Sogdian Christianity based on archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic and textual sources. PhD Thesis. SOAS, London, 229pp
Ashurov, B.,2020. Religions and Religious Space in Sogdian Culture: A View from Archaeological and Written Sources, Sino-Platonic Papers, 306
Azizpour, S., Persian-Central Asian Artistic Encounters on the Silk Road: Bandian & Panjikent in Visual Dialogue.
Compareti, M., 2012. ‘Classical Elements in Sogdian Art: Aesop’s Fables Represented in the Mural Paintings at Penjikent’, Iranica Antiqua, 47, 303-316.
Compareti, M., 2003,‘The role of the Sogdian colonies in the diffusion of the pearl roundels pattern’, Ērān ud Anērān, Webfestschrift.
Dien, A.E., 2009, ‘The tomb of the Sogdian master Shi: Insights into the life of a Sabao’, The Silk Road, 7,.42-50.
Frye, R. and Litvinsky, B., 1994. ‘The Northern Nomads, Sogdiana and Chorasmia’, History of Humanity, 3, 467-672
Gayibov, B., ????. ‘About to the Question of the Main Origin of Sogdian Rulers’, International journal of Humanities & Social Science Studies, 3, ????, .235-242.
Grenet, F. 2007, ‘Religious diversity among Sogdian merchants in sixth-century China: Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Manichaeism, and Hinduism’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 27(2).463-478.
Grenet, F. 2003., ‘The Pre-Islamic Civilization of the Sogdians (seventh century BCE to eighth century CE): A Bibliographic Essay (studies since 1986)’ The Silk Road, 1(2), 28-36.
Grenet, F., Riboud, P. and Yang, J., 2004. ‘Zoroastrian Scenes on a Newly Discovered Sogdian Tomb in Xi&aposan, Northern China’, Studia iranica, 33(2), pp.273-284.
Gulácsi, Z. and BeDuhn, J., 2012. ‘The religion of Wirkak and Wiyusi: the Zoroastrian iconographic program on a Sogdian sarcophagus from sixth-century Xi'an’, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 26, pp.1-32.
Henning, W.B., 1945 ‘Sogdian tales’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 11(3), 465-487.
Liu, C. 2023 ‘Sogdian Traders Along the Silk Road: Causes for Their Commercial Success’, Communications in Humanities Research, 4,1, 26-34.
Livshits, V.A., 2000. ‘Sogdian Sānak, a Manichaean Bishop of the 5th–Early 6th Centuries’, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 14, 47-54.
Lurje, P.B., 2021. ‘Buddhist Indian Loanwords in Sogdian and the Development of Sogdian Buddhism’, Entangled Religions, 11(6)
Lyu, P, 2024. Sogdian Acculturation in Medieval China (fifth through ninth centuries): A Study of Sogdian Tombs Found in China. PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham. 406pp
No, P., 2025 Sogdian Stone Coffins in China. International Journal of History and Political Sciences, 5, 11, 34-40
Onay, İ., 2025. Sogdiana’da Sosyal-Siyasi ve Dini Hayatın Genel Özellikleri. Abant Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 25(1), pp.111-126.
Ôsawa, T., 2006. ‘Aspects of the relationship between the ancient Turks and Sogdians-Based on a stone statue with Sogdian inscription in Xinjiang’, Ērān ud Anērān. Webfestschrift
Pulatovich, A.A., 2025. Sogdian Villages: Before and After the Arab Conquest. International Journal of History and Political Sciences, 5(10), pp.42-46.
Reck, C., 2021. ‘The Sogdians and Their Religions in Turfan: Evidence in the Catalogue of the Middle Iranian Fragments in Sogdian Script of the Berlin Turfan Collection’, Entangled Religions, 11(6)
Senora, E., 2026, January. Source Studies and Historiography of the Early Medieval History of the Sogdian Oasis. In London International Monthly Conference on Multidisciplinary Research and Innovation (LIMCMRI) (Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 20-22).
Shenkar, M., Kurbanov, S. and Pulotov, A., 2025. A unique scene of fire worship from the late Sogdian palace at Sanjar-Shah. Antiquity, 99(408), p.e61.
Sims-Williams, N., 2021. “The Sogdian epitaph of Shi Jun and his wife’, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 84(3), 505-513.
Sitora, G.A., 2025. Varakhsha Monument-in the Research of Archaeologists. World Scientific Research Journal, 46(2), pp.264-267.
Skaff, J.K., 2—3, ‘The Sogdian trade diaspora in East Turkestan during the seventh and eighth centuries’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 46(4), 475-524.
Slautina, M.???? ‘Telling the Sogdian Story: Sogdians, the Cultural Bees of Central Asia’,
de la De la Vaissière, É, 2004 ‘The Rise of the Sogdian Merchants and the Role of the Huns: The historical importance of the Sogdian Ancient Letters’ in S. Whitfield(ed) The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith, 19-23.
de la De la Vaissière, É., 2003, ‘Sogdians in China: A Short History and Some New Discoveries’, The Silk Road, 1(2),.23-27.
Wang, Y. 2023. From Samarkand to Chang’an –The Regionality of Sogdian Cultural Identity during the Tang Dynasty. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
Wertmann, P., Wagner, M. and Tarasov, P., 2017. ‘Sogdian careers and families in sixth-to seventh-century northern China: a case study of the Shi family based on archaeological finds and epitaph inscriptions’, The history of the family, 22(1), 103-135.
Xinjiang, R., 2006. ‘New Light on Sogdian Colonies along the Silk Road. Recent Archaeological Finds in Northern China’, Akademie der Wissenschaften: Berichte und Abhandlungen, 10, 2006.
Yakubovich, I., 2011. ‘Sogdian etymological notes’, Acta Orientalia, 64(2), 161-181.
Yatsenko, S., e.a. 2012.‘Sogdian Costume in Chinese and Sogdian Art of the 6th–8th Centuries’, Serica–Da Qin Studies in Archaeology, Philology and History of Sino-Western Relations (Selected Problems), 101-14.
Yoshida, Y., 2017. ‘Relationship between Sogdiana and Turfan during the 10th–11th centuries as reflected in Manichaean Sogdian texts’, Journal of the International Silk Roads Studies, 1, 113-25.
Zhang, J., e.a. 2025. Unraveling the origins of the sogdians: Evidence of genetic admixture between ancient central and East Asians. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 61, p.104957.