TY - BOOK AU - Akasoy,Anna AU - Burnett,Charles AU - Yoeli-Tlalim,Ronit TI - Islam and Tibet: interactions along the musk routes SN - 9780754669562 (hardcover : alk. paper) PY - 2011/// CY - Farnham, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Islam KW - China KW - Tibet Autonomous Region KW - History KW - Islamic countries KW - Relations KW - Tibet Autonomous Region (China) KW - Civilization KW - Islamic influences N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -