Mark Dickens

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Faculty of Arts - History, Classics, & Religion Dept

Email: dickens@ualberta.ca

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HIST 110 - The Pre-Modern World

World history from the end of the 6th century to the 15th century.

Fall Term 2026

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Featured Publications

Gog and Magog in Syriac Literature III: Literature from Michael the Syrian to the Modern Era

Mark Dickens

Gog and Magog. Contributions toward a World History of an Apocalyptic Motif. 2023 December; 10.1515/9783110720235-012

Gog and Magog in Syriac Literature II: Literature Connected to the Alexander Legend Prior to Michael the Syrian

Mark Dickens

Gog and Magog. Contributions toward a World History of an Apocalyptic Motif. 2023 December; 10.1515/9783110720235-007

Gog and Magog in Syriac Literature I: Literature Unconnected to the Alexander Legend Prior to Michael the Syrian

Mark Dickens

Gog and Magog. Contributions toward a World History of an Apocalyptic Motif. 2023 December; 10.1515/9783110720235-005

Syro-Uigurica III: Enochic Material in a Christian text from Turfan

Mark Dickens

Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 2021 December; 74 (4):583-624 10.1556/062.2021.00191

A Rediscovered Syriac Amulet from Turfan in the Collection of the Hermitage Museum

Mark Dickens and Natalia Smelova

Written Monuments of the Orient. 2021 December; 7 (2):107-147 10.17816/wmo65952

Yahbalaha the Turk: An Inner Asian Patriarch of the Eastern Christians

Mark Dickens

Echoes of a Forgotten Presence: Reconstructing the History of the Church of the East in Central Asia. 2020 August;

Tarsā: Persian and Central Asian Christians in Extant Literature

Mark Dickens

Artifact, Text, Context: Studies in Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. 2020 June;

Syriac Sources

Mark Dickens

Hunnic Peoples in Central and South Asia: Sources for their Origin and History. 2020 June; 10.2307/j.ctv13nb6vw.14

Syriac Christianity in Central Asia

Mark Dickens

The Syriac World. 2019 January; 10.4324/9781315708195

Inner Mongolian Syro-Turcica I: Contextualizing the Syro-Turkic Gravestones from Inner Mongolia

Tjalling H.F. Halbertsma and Mark Dickens

Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies. 2018 November; 66 (2):279-302 10.1080/02549948.2018.1534353

Syriac Inscriptions near Urgut, Uzbekistan

Mark Dickens

Studia Iranica. 2017 December; 46 (2):205-260 10.2143/SI.46.2.3285098

John of Ephesus on the Embassy of Zemarchus to the Türks

Mark Dickens

Central Eurasia in the Middle Ages. Studies in Honour of Peter B. Golden. 2016 June;

Syro-Uigurica II: Syriac Passages in U 338 from Turfan

Mark Dickens

Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies. 2013 December; 16 (2):301-324 10.31826/hug-2014-160111

Scribal Practices in the Turfan Christian Community

Mark Dickens

Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies. 2013 October; 13 10.31826/jcsss-2013-130103

The Importance of the Psalter at Turfan

Mark Dickens

From the Oxus River to the Chinese Shores: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in Central Asia and China. 2013 February;

Patriarch Timothy I and the Metropolitan of the Turks

Mark Dickens

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 2010 March; 20 (2):117-139 10.1017/S1356186309990460

Syriac Gravestones in the Tashkent History Museum

Mark Dickens

Hidden Treasures and Intercultural Encounters: Studies on East Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. 2009 June;