The Black Master is a Festschrift featuring 16 contributions from colleagues and former students of Professor György Kara, showcasing prominent scholars in the field. The articles cover a broad range of topics reflecting Kara's extensive research in Central Eurasian linguistics, history, and ethnology. The volume concludes with a comprehensive list of his publications. The contributions include: C. Atwood's exploration of literary responses to the attempted reunification of Inner Mongolia; B. Baumann's examination of "Nakshatra Astrology" in Antoine Mostaert’s manual; Á. Birtalan's invocation collected from a Darkhad shaman’s descendant; M. Dobrovits's analysis of the Tölis and Tarduš in Old Turkic inscriptions; J. Elverskog's insights on Sagang Sechen and the Qing conquest; J. Janhunen's study of the sibilant system of Qinghai Bonan; M. Kiripolská's remarks on Mongolian texts in Stockholm; R. I. Meserve's research on snowcocks in Central Asia; D. Prior's discussion of Tonyuquq’s humiliation and Old Turkic etymology; A. Róna-Tas's Turko-Mongolian etymologies; V. Rybatzki's examination of personal names and titles of the Naiman in the Secret History of the Mongols; Y. Saitô's analysis of West Middle Mongolian vocabulary; A. Sárközi's study of proper names in the Mongolian Suvarnaprabhasottamasutra; and A. G. Sazykin's work on Mongolian xylographs in St. Petersburg’s collections.
