About the Collection
The Gunnar Jarring Central Eurasia Collection consists of publications from the private library of late Ambassador Gunnar Jarring (1907–2002). It was formerly owned by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities and hosted for about 10 years by Stockholm University, where it was catalogued and kept as a separate library. In 2012, this collection was donated and transported to the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.
A digitization project has been initiated in an effort to increase the accessibility of materials from the Gunnar Jarring Central Eurasia Collection in Istanbul for both the scientific community and the general public by providing possibilities through this website to view items in their entirety together with briefings about their provenance and contents.
Collection Categories
- Kashgar Prints
- Travel Literature
- Maps
- Reading
- New publication
Featured Publications
Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur studies in memory of ambassador Gunnar Jarring (2017) edited by Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Birgit N. Schlyter and Jun Sugwara
Return to the Silk Routes: Current Scandinavian research on Central Asia (1999) edited by Mirja Juntunen and Birgit N. Schlyter
Dragomanen (2015), Annual published by the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul
Sverige utanför – svensk makt och dess spår i utlandet (2015), YMER