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Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621968030
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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Author: Abdulmamad Iloliev
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781461918141
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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The name of Mubarak-i Wakhani (1839-1903), a Persian (Tajik) mystic poet, musician, astronomer, and Ismaili religious scholar from Badakhshan, is hardly known in modern academic circles related to Persian and Ismaili studies. Despite his importance to Ismaili esoteric thought in general and the Ismaili tradition of the peoples of the Pamir Mountains in particular, Mubarak has received only scant attention from modern scholars. One of the major reasons for Mubarak's relative obscurity is probably the geographic location of his homeland and its socio-economic, political, and intellectual environment. There has been no serious scholarly research conducted on Mubarak's life and works. This book is the first introductory study on the subject, and provides the first systematic presentation of the seminal Islamic figure. In the desire to establish an accurate biography of Mubarak and to render his often confused Ismaili-Sufi ideas as lucidly and coherently as possible, this book, by Dr. Abdulmamad Iloliev (PhD, Cambridge University) of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, concentrates on assessing his life and thoughts in their historical and religious context. It explores how far Mubarak's works represent the indigenous Pamiri perception of Ismailism and where he stands in relation to general Ismaili thought. Likewise, through the study of the works of Mubarak, it seeks to explore the distinctive elements of Pamiri Ismailism, which itself is an interesting, but relatively neglected area in religio-cultural studies of the minor nations within the diverse civilization of Islam in general and the former Soviet Union in particular. This is a must-have resource for all scholars in Islamic Studies.

Author: Radhakamal Mukerjee
Publisher: New York : F. A. Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Author: Anna Akasoy
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754669562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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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. The significance of these interactions has been long ignored in scholarship. These papers 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 art history, history of science, literature, archaeology, and anthropology.

Author: Hyech'o
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
ISBN: 0895810247
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Jens Braarvig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Nicholas Sims-Williams
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
ISBN: 9783700181842
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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More than 150 documents in Bactrian, the chief administrative language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light during the last twenty-five years. These documents include letters, legal contracts, economic documents and a few Buddhist texts; many of them bear dates in the so-called "Bactrian era", which is also known from a few inscriptions, such as the Tochi valley inscriptions in Pakistan, but whose starting-point is controversial. The Bactrian documents have the potential to transform our knowledge of the history of the region during the 4th to 8th centuries CE, a period for which we have few contemporary records, but before they can be fully exploited as historical sources it is necessary to establish their relative and absolute chronology. The present volume aims to fulfil this need. In Part 1 we consider the dated documents, discussing the nature of the Bactrian calendar and the epoch of the Bactrian era, and concluding with a conspectus in which all the attested dates are converted to Julian dates on the basis of the facts and arguments presented. In Part 2 we turn to the equally important undated documents, systematically weighing up all types of evidence, whether historical, prosopographical, palaeographical, linguistic or orthographic, which may have a bearing on their dating. Part 3 provides a handy check-list of our conclusions, while the Appendices provide additional and supporting material including editions of the Tochi valley inscriptions and of a Pahlavi letter which was purchased together with the Bactrian documents. This book will be required reading for scholars and students of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic history of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia. It will also be a useful resource for those interested in the languages, religions and numismatics of the region.

Author: Xinru Liu
Publisher: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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India and China are two of the most important civilizations of the ancient world. Looking at the relations between these empires before the 6th century A.D., Xinru Liu conclusively establishes the transmission of Buddhism from India to China, and describes the various items of commercial trade.

Author: Uma Chakravarti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Geoffrey Khan
Publisher: Khalili Collections
ISBN: 9781874780717
Category : Legal documents
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Thirty two legal and administrative documents from a private archive of a family from north-eastern Afghanistan, datable between AH 138 and AH 160 (AD 755-777).