Islam and Tibet - interactions along the Musk routes

Islam and Tibet : cultural interactions : an introduction / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim -- Tibet in Islamic geography and cartography / Anna Akasoy -- The Bactrian background of the Barmakids / Kevin van Bladel -- Iran to Tibet / Asadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani -- Greek and Islamic medicines : historical...

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Contributors: Akasoy, Anna 1977- (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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WorldCat: WorldCat
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: Farnham, Surrey [u.a.] Ashgate 2011
In:Year: 2011
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Tibet / Arab countries / Cultural contact
B Buddhism / Islam
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Islamic countries Civilization
B Arab countries
B Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Civilization Islamic influences
B Islam (China) (Tibet Autonomous Region) History
B Islamic countries Relations (China) (Tibet Autonomous Region)
B Tibet
B Cultural contact
B Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Relations (Islamic countries)
B Conference program
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Summary:Islam and Tibet : cultural interactions : an introduction / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim -- Tibet in Islamic geography and cartography / Anna Akasoy -- The Bactrian background of the Barmakids / Kevin van Bladel -- Iran to Tibet / Asadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani -- Greek and Islamic medicines : historical contact with Tibet / Dan Martin -- Tibetan musk and medieval Arab perfumery / Anya King -- Central Asian Buddhist sources of early scholasticism in medieval Tibet, Islam and Western Europe / Christopher Beckwith -- Notes on the religions in the Mongol empire / Peter Zieme -- Tibetans, Mongols and the fusion of Eurasian cultures / Paul Buell -- Rock-cut cave sites in Iran and their Ilkhanid Buddhist aspects reconsidered / Arezou Azad -- The Muslim queens of the Himalayas : princess exchanges in Baltistan and Ladakh / Georgios Halkias -- Portuguese missionaries and their first encounter with Muslims in Tibet / Marc Gaborieau -- So close to Samarkand, Lhasa : Sufi hagiographies, founder myths and sacred space in Tibetan Islam / Alexandre Papas -- Between legend and reality : about the conversion to Islam of two prominent Lamaists in the 17th-18th centuries / Thierry Zarcone -- Ritual theory across the Buddhist-Muslim divide in late imperial China / Johan Elverskog -- An early 19th-century Kashmiri Muslim trader in Tibet / John 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 movement / Jan Magnusson
Physical Description:XIV, 391 S., [16] Bl., Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:978-0-7546-6956-2