Author: Matteo ComparetiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
From Sasanian Persia to the Tarim Basin. Pre-islamic Iranian Art and Culture Along the Silk-road
Author: Matteo ComparetiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Imperial Horizons of the Silk Roads
Author: Branka FranicevicPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803274050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This volume centres on how the exchange routes transformed the frontier regions of the Silk Road. In doing so, it utilises a range of methods to reach an archaeological interpretation of the factors that linked people with the environment; movements, settlements, and beliefs.
The Elusive Persian Phoenix. Simurgh and Pseudo-Simurgh in Iranian Arts
Author: Matteo ComparetiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Silk Road
Author: Frances WoodPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520243408
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This gorgeously illustrated oversized book brings the history and cultures of the Silk Road alive -- from its beginnings to the present day -- covering more than 5000 years.
Religions of the Silk Road
Author: Richard FoltzPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333946749
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
During the latter decades of the 19th century, popular European fascination with the world beyond reached an all-time high. The British and French empires spanned the globe, and their colonial agents sent home exotic goods and stories. The Silk Route dates from this romantic period, in name if not in reality. In the century since its invention as a concept, the Silk Route has captured and captivated the Western imagination. It has given us images of fabled cities and exotic peoples. Religions of the Silk Route tells the story of how religions accompanied merchants and their goods along the overland Asian trade routes of pre-modern times. It is a story of continuous movement, encounters, mutual reactions and responses, adaptation and change. Beginning as early as the 8th century BCE, Israelite and Iranian traditions travelled eastwards in this way, and they were followed centuries later by the great missionary traditions of Buddhism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam.
Along the Ancient Silk Routes
Author: Herbert HärtelPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993003
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction
Author: James A. MillwardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199782865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
The Silk Road: A Very Short Introduction is a new look at an ancient subject: the silk road that linked China, India, Persia and the Mediterranean across the expanses of Central Asia. James A. Millward highlights unusual but important biological, technological and cultural exchanges over the silk roads that stimulated development across Eurasia and underpin civilization in our modern, globalized world.
The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran
Author: Patricia CronePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139510762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Patricia Crone's book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran across a period of two millennia. The central thesis is that this complex of ideas has been endemic to the mountain population of Iran and occasionally become epidemic with major consequences for the country, most strikingly in the revolts examined here and in the rise of the Safavids who imposed Shi'ism on Iran. This learned and engaging book by one of the most influential scholars of early Islamic history casts entirely new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran and on the persistence of Iranian religious beliefs both outside and inside Islam after the Arab conquest.
Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment
Author: Ahmet T. KuruPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108419097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity
Author: Nicola Di CosmoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108547001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity offers an integrated picture of Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppes during a formative period of world history. In the half millennium between 250 and 750 CE, settled empires underwent deep structural changes, while various nomadic peoples of the steppes (Huns, Avars, Turks, and others) experienced significant interactions and movements that changed their societies, cultures, and economies. This was a transformational era, a time when Roman, Persian, and Chinese monarchs were mutually aware of court practices, and when Christians and Buddhists criss-crossed the Eurasian lands together with merchants and armies. It was a time of greater circulation of ideas as well as material goods. This volume provides a conceptual frame for locating these developments in the same space and time. Without arguing for uniformity, it illuminates the interconnections and networks that tied countless local cultural expressions to far-reaching inter-regional ones.
