Islam and Tibet: Interactions Along the Musk RoutesAnna Akasoy, Charles S. F. Burnett, Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. Military and political contacts went along with an increasing interest in the other side. Cultural exchanges and the transmission of knowledge were facilitated by a trading network, with musk constituting one of the main trading goods from the Himalayas, largely through India. From the thirteenth century onwards, the spread of the Mongol Empire from the Western borders of Europe through Central Asia to China facilitated further exchanges. The significance of these interactions has been long ignored in scholarship. This volume represents a major contribution to the subject, bringing together new studies by an interdisciplinary group of international scholars. They explore for the first time the multi-layered contacts between the Islamic world, Central Asia and the Himalayas from the eighth century until the present day in a variety of fields, including geography, cartography, art history, history of science and education, literature, hagiography, archaeology, and anthropology. |
Contents
A Survey of Arabic | 17 |
The Bactrian Background of the Barmakids | 43 |
Iran to Tibet | 89 |
Tibetan Musk and Medieval Arab Perfumery | 145 |
The Sarvāstivādin Buddhist Scholastic Method in Medieval Islam | 163 |
Notes on the Religions in the Mongol Empire | 177 |
Tibetans Mongols and the Fusion of Eurasian Cultures | 191 |
Three RockCut Cave Sites in Iran and their Ilkhanid Buddhist | 209 |
Princess Exchanges in Baltistan | 231 |
The Discovery of the Muslims of Tibet by the First Portuguese | 253 |
About the Conversion to Islam | 281 |
Trader Middleman or Spy? The Dilemmas of a Kashmiri Muslim | 313 |
Do All the Muslims of Tibet Belong to the Hui Nationality? | 339 |
Greater Ladakh and the Mobilization of Tradition in the Contemporary | 353 |
Index of Proper Names | 377 |
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