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Summary
Summary
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.
Author Notes
Anna Akasoy is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, UK; Charles Burnett is Professor of the History of Islamic Influences in Europe at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and is a Fellow of the British Academy, UK; Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim is a Wellcome Trust University Award holder at the History Department, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Islam and Tibet: cultural interactions - an introductionRonit Yoeli-Tlalim |
| Tibet in Islamic geography and cartography: a survey of Arabic and Persian sourcesAnna Akasoy |
| The Bactrian background of the BarmakidsKevin van Bladel |
| Iran to TibetAssadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani |
| Greek and Islamic medicines' historical contact with Tibet: a reassessment in view of recently available but relatively early sources on Tibetan medical eclecticismDan Martin |
| Tibetan musk and medieval Arab perfumeryAnya King |
| The Sarvastivadin Buddhist scholastic method in medieval Islam and TibetChristopher I. Beckwith |
| Notes on the religions in the Mongol empirePeter Zieme |
| Tibetans, Mongols and the fusion of Eurasian culturesPaul D. Buell |
| Three rock-cut cave sites in Iran and their Ilkhanid Buddhist aspects reconsideredArezou Azad |
| The Muslim Queens of the Himalayas: princess exchanges in Baltistan and LadakhGeorgios T. Halkias |
| The discovery of the Muslims of Tibet by the first Portuguese missionariesMarc Gaborieau |
| So close to Samarkand, Lhasa: Sufi hagiographies, founder myths and sacred space in Himalayan IslamAlexandre Papas |
| Between legend and history: about the 'conversion' to Islam of two prominent Lamaists in the 17th-18th centuriesThierry Zarcone |
| Ritual theory across the Buddhist-Muslim divide in late imperial ChinaJohan Elverskog |
| Trader, middleman or spy? The dilemmas of a Kashmiri Muslim in early 19th-century TibetJohn Bray |
| Do all the Muslims of Tibet belong to the Hui nationality?Diana Altner |
| Greater Ladakh and the mobilization of tradition in the contemporary Baltistan movementJan Magnusson |
| Index of proper names |
