Ibn Hankal, the Arabian geographer, describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of
Sogd, in Bukharia.
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Sogd', twrkst 'Turkestan' (for twrkstn as in line 15), and twpytstn 'Tibet' are all quite clear, though one may wonder what exactly 'Turkestan' (contrasted with y'yywr 'the Uygurs' in line 15) implies at this period.
(19) Personal interview, senior
Sogd Province counterterrorism official, Khujand, Tajikistan, July 2011.
Likewise, institutions and mechanisms to handle water distribution, especially in areas such as the Kyrgyz Batken Valley and Tajik
Sogd Province, could reduce cross-border conflict over water rights.
In "Heroism" Emerson's source for his vision of heroic hospitality is non-Western: "Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer, [who] describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of
Sogd, in Bukharia" (EL 375), present-day Uzbekistan.
The judicial collegium for criminal cases of the Sughd regional court completed the criminal case against Gayrat Khidoyatov, a 35-year-old resident of the Vakhdat jamoat in the Devashtich district, reported in
Sogd regional court.
Tajikistan has opened a criminal investigation after 14 prison inmates died of food poisoning while being transferred from Tajikistan's northern
Sogd region to prisons in Dushanbe, Norak, and Yovon in southern Tajikistan on July 7, RFE/RL reports.
The most promising for development at the present time are: "Supetau" in the
Sogd oblast, as well as "Rengan", "Kashkokum", "Olimtoi", "Yalgizkak" and "Sargazon" in south-western Tajikistan.