Islam and Tibet – Interactions along the Musk Routes
Language: en
Pages: 462
Authors: Anna Akasoy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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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 pol
Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia
Language: en
Pages: 355
Authors: Prof. Dr. Michal Biran
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-28 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world, extending fro
Arabian Drugs in Medieval Mediterranean Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Zohar Amar
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-12-05 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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Explores the impact of drugs introduced by the Arabs on medieval Mediterranean medicineFor more than one thousand years Arab medicine held sway in the ancient w
The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia
Language: en
Pages: 398
Authors: D. G. Tor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-15 - Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

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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 transitio
Islamic Shangri-La
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: David G. Atwill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-09 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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