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      Islam and Tibet – Interactions along the Musk Routes
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      Islam and Tibet – Interactions along the Musk Routes book

      Edited ByAnna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2011
      eBook Published 29 November 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315251776
      Pages 406
      eBook ISBN 9781315251776
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities
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      Akasoy, A., Burnett, C., & Yoeli-Tlalim, R. (Eds.). (2011). Islam and Tibet – Interactions along the Musk Routes (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315251776

      ABSTRACT

      The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. Military and political contacts went along with an increasing interest in the other side. Cultural exchanges and the transmission of knowledge were facilitated by a trading network, with musk constituting one of the main trading goods from the Himalayas, largely through India. From the thirteenth century onwards the spread of the Mongol Empire from the Western borders of Europe through Central Asia to China facilitated further exchanges. The significance of these interactions has been long ignored in scholarship. This volume represents a major contribution to the subject, bringing together new studies by an interdisciplinary group of international scholars. They explore for the first time the multi-layered contacts between the Islamic world, Central Asia and the Himalayas from the eighth century until the present day in a variety of fields, including geography, cartography, art history, medicine, history of science and education, literature, hagiography, archaeology, and anthropology.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|16 pages

      Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions – An Introduction

      ByRonit Yoeli-Tlalim

      chapter 2|26 pages

      Tibet in Islamic Geography and Cartography: A Survey of Arabic and Persian Sources

      ByAnna Akasoy

      chapter 3|46 pages

      The Bactrian Background of the Barmakids

      ByKevin van Bladel

      chapter 4|28 pages

      Iran to Tibet

      ByAssadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani

      chapter 5|28 pages

      Greek and Islamic Medicines’ Historical Contact with Tibet: A Reassessment in View of Recently Available but Relatively Early Sources on Tibetan Medical Eclecticism

      ByDan Martin

      chapter 6|18 pages

      Tibetan Musk and Medieval Arab Perfumery

      ByAnya King

      chapter 7|14 pages

      The Sarvāstivādin Buddhist Scholastic Method in Medieval Islam and Tibet

      Byand Tibet Christopher I. Beckwith

      chapter 8|12 pages

      Notes on the Religions in the Mongol Empire

      ByPeter Zieme

      chapter 9|20 pages

      Tibetans, Mongols and the Fusion of Eurasian Cultures

      ByPaul D. Buell

      chapter 10|22 pages

      Three Rock-Cut Cave Sites in Iran and their Ilkhanid Buddhist Aspects Reconsidered

      ByArezou Azad

      chapter 11|22 pages

      The Muslim Queens of the Himalayas: Princess Exchanges in Baltistan and Ladakh

      ByGeorgios T. Halkias

      chapter 12|8 pages

      The Discovery of the Muslims of Tibet by the First Portuguese Missionaries

      ByMarc Gaborieau

      chapter 13|20 pages

      So Close to Samarkand, Lhasa: Sufi Hagiographies, Founder Myths and Sacred Space in Himalayan Islam

      ByAlexandre Papas

      chapter 14|12 pages

      Between Legend and History: About the ‘Conversion’ to Islam of Two Prominent Lamaists in the Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries

      ByThierry Zarcone

      chapter 15|20 pages

      Ritual Theory across the Buddhist–Muslim Divide in Late Imperial China

      ByJohan Elverskog

      chapter 16|26 pages

      Trader, Middleman or Spy? The Dilemmas of a Kashmiri Muslim in Early Nineteenth-Century Tibet

      ByJohn Bray

      chapter 17|14 pages

      Do All the Muslims of Tibet Belong to the Hui Nationality?

      ByDiana Altner

      chapter 18|24 pages

      Greater Ladakh and the Mobilization of Tradition in the Contemporary Baltistan Movement

      ByJan Magnusson
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