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Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road / / Johan Elverskog



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Autore: Elverskog Johan Visualizza persona
Titolo: Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road / / Johan Elverskog Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 294.3/35095
Soggetto topico: Islam - Relations - Buddhism
Buddhism - Relations - Islam
Islam - Silk Road - History
Buddhism - Silk Road - History
Soggetto geografico: Asia Religion
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE Contact -- CHAPTER TWO Understanding -- CHAPTER THREE Idolatry -- CHAPTER FOUR Jihad -- CHAPTER FIVE Halal -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Index -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8122-2259-8
1-283-89741-5
0-8122-0531-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910812018703321
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Serie: Encounters with Asia.