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1985 — Fine English Paperback. Large roy. 8vo. (25 x 18 cm). In English. [2], 127, 92 p. Original Uighur version (in Arabic script and roman transcription) of As?h?ab al-kahf (In risala-i H?azrat-i Sult?an Ashabu'l-kahf, Azhâb al-Kâhf) with English translation: Contents, Preface, Introduction, Transcription System, Text (Transcripted), Textual Corrections and Notes, Translation in English, Vocabulary (Transcription of Uyghur vocabulary with English meanings), and Facsimile of original manuscript in Uighur. The treatise on the Companions of the Cave (In risala-i Hazrat-i Sultan Ashabu'l-Kahf) is one of the nine manuscripts in the Mannerheim Collection of Eastern Turki manuscripts. The manuscript belongs to the Finno-Ugrian Society and is kept in the archives of the Society under the code number 2.49.1 (Mannerheim Coll.). Raquette in his article "Collection of Manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan describes all but this particular manuscript from the collection. Halen is the first to register the manuscript in his Handbook of Oriental Collections in Finland under entry number 351; he describes the manuscript as 'Eastern Turki (Uighur-Uzbek) MS, 18:11 cm, 96 p. (47 foll.), without pagination, a hand written copy of a "tazkir" from the tomb of the Seven Brothers in Tuyok, near Kara Hodja. Not described in the catalogue of Raquette". Signed and inscribed by Naskali to Gunnar Jarring, (1907-2002), was a Swedish diplomat and Turkologist.