Andras Rona-Tas, distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Szeged, Hungary, winner of several international prestigious prizes, has devoted his long academic career to the study of Chuvash, Turkic elements in Hungarian, Mongolic-Tibetan linguistic contacts, the Para-Mongolic language Khitan and other Central Asian languages and cultures. This book, presented to him in the occasion of his 90th birthday, contains a collection of papers in Turkic and Mongolic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture, and languages of the steppe civilizations. It is organized in three sections: Turkic Studies, Mongolic Studies, and Linguistic and cultural contacts of Altaic languages. It contains papers by some of most renowned experts in Central Asia Studies. Contributors are Klara Agyagasi, Akos Bertalan Apatoczky, Agnes Birtalan, Uwe Blasing, Eva Csaki, Eva Agnes Csato, Edina Dallos, Marcel Erdal, Stefan Georg, Peter Golden, Maria Ivanics, Juha Janhunen, Lars Johanson, Gyoergy Kara, Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Jens Peter Laut, Raushangul Mukusheva, Olach Zsuzsanna, Benedek Peri, Elisabetta Ragagnin, Pavel Rykin, Uli Schamiloglu, Janos Sipos, Istvan Vasary, Alexander Vovin, Michael Weiers, Jens Wilkens, Wu Yingzhe, Emine Yilmaz, and Peter Zieme.

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