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Islam and Tibet - Interactions along the Musk Routes (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Islam and Tibet - Interactions along the Musk Routes (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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,
medicine, history of science and education, literature,
hagiography, archaeology, and anthropology.
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