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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154688703321

Titolo

Islam and Tibet : interactions along the musk routes / / edited by Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-25177-9

1-351-92606-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (439 pages, 41 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, tables

Altri autori (Persone)

AkasoyAnna

BurnettCharles (Charles S. F.)

Yoeli-TlalimRonit

Disciplina

303.48217670515

Soggetti

Islam - China - Tibet Autonomous Region - History

Islamic countries Relations China Tibet Autonomous Region

Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Civilization Islamic influences

Islamic countries Civilization

Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Relations Islamic countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing"--t.p. verso.

Nota di contenuto

1. Islam and Tibet : cultural interactions, an introduction / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim -- 2. Tibet in Islamic geography and cartography : a survey of Arabic and Persian sources / Anna Akasoy -- 3. The Bactrian background of the Barmakids / Kevin van Bladel -- 4. Iran to Tibet / Asadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani -- 5. Greek and Islamic medicines' historical contact with Tibet : a reassessment in view of recently available but relatively early sources on Tibetan medical eclecticism / Dan Martin -- 6. Tibetan musk and medieval Arab perfumery / Anya King -- 7. The Sarvastivadin Buddhist scholastic method in medieval Islam and Tibet / Christopher I. Beckwith -- 8. Notes on the religions in the Mongol empire / Peter Zieme -- 9. Tibetans, Mongols and the fusion of Eurasian cultures / Paul D. Buell -- 10. Three rock-cut cave sites in Iran and their Ilkhanid Buddhist aspects reconsidered / Arezou Azad -- 11. The Muslim queens of the Himalayas : princess exchanges in Baltistan and Ladakh / Georgios T. Halkias -- 12. The discovery of



the Muslims of Tibet by the first Portuguese missionaries / Marc Gaborieau -- 12. So close to Samarkand, Lhasa : Sufi hagiographies, founder myths and sacred space in Tibetan Islam / Alexandre Papas -- 14. Between legend and history : about the 'conversion' to Islam of two prominent Lamaists in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries / Thierry Zarcone -- 15. Ritual theory across the Buddhist-Muslim divide in late imperial China / Johan Elverskog -- 16. Trader, middleman or spy? The dilemmas of a Kashmiri Muslim in early nineteenth-century Tibet / John Bray -- 17. Do all the Muslims of Tibet belong to the Hui nationality? / Diana Altner -- 18. Greater Ladakh and the mobilization of tradition in the contemporary Baltistan movement / Jan Magnusson.