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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Akasoy, Anna.

Burnett, Charles (Charles S. F.)

Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam.

History.

Relations.

Islamic countries--Relations--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Islamic countries.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Relations--Islamic countries.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Islamic countries--Civilization.

Civilization.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Civilization--Islamic influences.

Islam--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--History.

China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Physical Description:

xiv, 391 pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Islam and Tibet.

ISBN:

0754669564

9780754669562

OCLC:

468974591

Publisher Number:

99946407140