LEADER 03775nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910788372103321 005 20211012022756.0 010 $a0-8122-2259-8 010 $a1-283-89741-5 010 $a0-8122-0531-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205312 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046631 035 $a(OCoLC)794700582 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576136 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000810553 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12381605 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000810553 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10846316 035 $a(PQKB)10093844 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8256 035 $a(DE-B1597)449388 035 $a(OCoLC)979622987 035 $a(OCoLC)999354242 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205312 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441695 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576136 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420991 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441695 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046631 100 $a20091022d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBuddhism and Islam on the Silk Road$b[electronic resource] /$fJohan Elverskog 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aEncounters with Asia 311 0 $a0-8122-4237-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCHAPTER ONE Contact --$tCHAPTER TWO Understanding --$tCHAPTER THREE Idolatry --$tCHAPTER FOUR Jihad --$tCHAPTER FIVE Halal --$tCONCLUSION --$tNOTES --$tIndex --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS 330 $aIn the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the stereotypes of Buddhism as a peaceful, rational philosophy and Islam as an inherently violent and irrational religion. But if Buddhist-Muslim history was simply repeated instances of Muslim militants attacking representations of the Buddha, how had the Bamiyan Buddha statues survived thirteen hundred years of Muslim rule? Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road demonstrates that the history of Buddhist-Muslim interaction is much richer and more complex than many assume. This groundbreaking book covers Inner Asia from the eighth century through the Mongol empire and to the end of the Qing dynasty in the late nineteenth century. By exploring the meetings between Buddhists and Muslims along the Silk Road from Iran to China over more than a millennium, Johan Elverskog reveals that this long encounter was actually one of profound cross-cultural exchange in which two religious traditions were not only enriched but transformed in many ways. 410 0$aEncounters with Asia. 606 $aIslam$xRelations$xBuddhism 606 $aBuddhism$xRelations$xIslam 606 $aIslam$zSilk Road$xHistory 606 $aBuddhism$zSilk Road$xHistory 607 $aAsia$xReligion 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAsian Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aMiddle Eastern Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aIslam$xRelations$xBuddhism. 615 0$aBuddhism$xRelations$xIslam. 615 0$aIslam$xHistory. 615 0$aBuddhism$xHistory. 676 $a294.3/35095 700 $aElverskog$b Johan$0646293 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788372103321 996 $aBuddhism and Islam on the Silk Road$93840598 997 $aUNINA