HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WRITTEN SOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF KAZAKHSTAN FROM THE 6TH TO THE EARLY 13TH CENTURIES: EVOLUTION OF TRANSLATIONS, TEXTUAL CRITICISM, AND HISTORICAL-GEOGRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION
Introduction. The article offers a source-studies-oriented historiographical review of how the history of Kazakhstan from the 6th to the early 13th centuries has been studied through written evidence. Reconstructing Kazakhstan's early and high medieval past relies on a multilingual and multi-genre corpus; thus, scholar...