/ edited by Anna Akasoy, Charles Burnett, and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
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Farnham, England ;Burlington, VT
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: Ashgate
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, 2011.
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xiv, 391 p.
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:, [31] p. of plates , ill., maps
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Index
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Islam and Tibet : cultural interactions : an introduction / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim - Tibet in Islamic geography and cartography / Anna Akasoy - The Bactrian background of the Barmakids / Kevin van Bladel - Iran to Tibet / Asadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani - Greek and Islamic medicines : historical contact with Tibet / Dan Martin - Tibetan musk and medieval Arab perfumery / Anya King - Central Asian Buddhist sources of early scholasticism in medieval Tibet, Islam and Western Europe / Christopher Beckwith - Notes on the religions in the Mongol empire / Peter Zieme - Tibetans, Mongols and the fusion of Eurasian cultures / Paul Buell - Rock-cut cave sites in Iran and their Ilkhanid Buddhist aspects reconsidered / Arezou Azad - The Muslim queens of the Himalayas : princess exchanges in Baltistan and Ladakh / Georgios Halkias - Portuguese missionaries and their first encounter with Muslims in Tibet / Marc Gaborieau - So close to Samarkand, Lhasa : Sufi hagiographies, founder myths and sacred space in Tibetan Islam / Alexandre Papas - Between legend and reality : about the conversion to Islam of two prominent Lamaists in the 17th-18th centuries / Thierry Zarcone - Ritual theory across the Buddhist-Muslim divide in late imperial China / Johan Elverskog - An early 19th-century Kashmiri Muslim trader in Tibet / John Bray - Do all the Muslims of Tibet belong to the Hui nationality? / Diana Altner - Greater Ladakh and the mobilization of tradition in the contemporary Baltistan movement / Jan Magnusson
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Islamic countries - Relations - China - Tibet Autonomous Region
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) - Relations - Islamic countries
Islamic countries - Civilization
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) - Civilization - Islamic influences