A Comparative Study of Cultural Units in Tajik Legal Written Monuments of the 10th Century

Abstract

Researchers in the field of law, in compiling and clarifying various angles of the history of their era, place great emphasis on the role of legal documents in their general sense and insist on the importance of the hidden and unique cultural and legal documents of the time due to its special characteristics. Although, to recount historical events, cultural and legal languages and various expressions such as description, praise, admiration, memory, article, image, etc. can be used, but with the passage of time and distance from the origin of each event, the possibility of describing some of these events will be reduced and for this reason it can be claimed that law and culture are the only language of documents that shed light on the dark corners of history at any point in time. Based on the example of some onomastic units this article studies linguistic and cultural relationships between and some other peoples. This interconnection is based on deep cultural, historical, economic and socio-political roots.  The data and results of this article indicate the closest contacts of t Sogdians (ancestors of Tadjiks) with Chinese, Hindus and Turks in the production of weapons, military affairs, trade, agriculture referred to in the Sogdian documents from Mount Mug. The article also deals with the linguistic and cultural relations of Tadjiks with the Slavic world on the basis of the ethnogeographic name ‘Saqlob’ (according to one of the hypotheses it means "Slovenia"), which is quite commonly used at an early stage of the development of the Tadjik language.