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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (439 pages, 41 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, tables
• Disciplina: 303.48217670515
• Soggetto topico: Islam - China - Tibet Autonomous Region - History
• Soggetto geografico: Islamic countries Relations China Tibet Autonomous Region; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Civilization Islamic influences; Islamic countries Civilization; Tibet Autonomous Region (China) Relations Islamic countries
• Altri autori: AkasoyAnna BurnettCharles (Charles S. F.) Yoeli-TlalimRonit
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Islam and Tibet
• ISBN: 1-315-25177-9; 1-351-92606-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154688703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II