Author: János HarmattaPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Sogdian Sources for the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia
Author: János HarmattaProlegomena to the Sources on the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia
Author: János HarmattaPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 348
Book Description
Collection of the sources on the history of Pre-Islamic Central Asia
Author: [Anonymus AC01774774]Studies in the Sources on the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia
Author: János HarmattaPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : de
Pages : 174
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Collection of the Sources for the History of Pre-Islamic Central Asia
Author: International Academic UnionPublisher:
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Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
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Sogdian Traders
Author: Étienne de la VaissièrePublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047406990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Sogdian Traders were the main go-between of Central Asia from the fifth to the eighth century. From their towns of Samarkand, Bukhara, or Tashkent, their diaspora is attested by texts, inscriptions or archaeology in all the major countries of Asia (India, China, Iran, Turkish Steppe, but also Byzantium). This survey for the first time brings together all the data on their trade, from the beginning, a small-scale trade in the first century BC up to its end in the tenth century. It should interest all the specialists of Ancient and Medieval Asia (including specialists of Sinology, Islamic Studies, Iranology, Turkology and Indology) but also specialists of Medieval Economic History.
The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia
Author: D. G. TorPublisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN: 0268202087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
This volume examines the major cultural, religious, political, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world of Inner and Central Asia in the transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic periods. One of the major civilizations of the first millennium was that of the Iranian linguistic and cultural world, which stretched from today’s Iraq to what is now the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. No other region of the world underwent such radical transformation, which fundamentally altered the course of world history, as this area did during the centuries of transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period. This transformation included the religious victory of Islam over Buddhism, Nestorian Christianity, and the other religions of the area; the military and political wresting of Inner Asia from the Chinese to the Islamic sphere of primary cultural influence; and the shifting of Central Asia from a culturally and demographically Iranian civilization to a Turkic one. This book contains essays by many of the preeminent scholars working in the fields of archeology, history, linguistics, and literature of both the pre-Islamic and the Islamic-era Iranian world, shedding light on some of the most significant aspects of the major changes that this important portion of the Asian continent underwent during this tumultuous era in its history. This collection of cutting-edge research will be read by scholars of Middle Eastern, Central Asian, Iranian, and Islamic studies and archaeology. Contributors: D. G. Tor, Frantz Grenet, Nicholas Sims-Williams, Etsuko Kageyama, Yutaka Yoshida, Michael Shenkar, Minoru Inaba, Rocco Rante, Arezou Azad, Sören Stark, Louise Marlow, Gabrielle van den Berg, and Dilnoza Duturaeva.
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Author: Richard Nelson Frye