THE STUDY OF ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPT SOURCES ABOUT CENTRAL ASIA IN FRANCE

Durdona Bakhronovna Rasulova

Independent fellow of the Institute of History of Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Abstract. For several centuries in France have been analyzing the sources and literature, which were created by our ancestors in the Middle Ages. On the basis of the information on the establishment in France of funds of Oriental manuscripts, collection and study of sources, their cataloguing and translation, this article reveals the research of “classical orientalism”.

Keywords:  Orientalism, Central Asia, manuscript, French Orientalist schools,  cultural heritage,