Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences

Research institute focused on manuscript collection

Founded in 1943, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences is a Tashkent-based research institution that specializes on collection of manuscripts. At the present time, its manuscript collection contains about 26,000 volumes and includes works written in Uzbek, Arabic, Persian, Tajik, Urdu, Azeri, Ottoman Turkish, Tatar, Turkmen, Uighur and other languages.