Encountering Buddhism and Islam in Premodern Central and South Asia / / ed. by Ingo Strauch, Blain Auer.

This volume brings together a variety of historians, epigraphists, philologists, art historians and archaeologists to address the understanding of the encounter between Buddhist and Muslim communities in South and Central Asia during the medieval period. The articles collected here provoke a fresh l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
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Año de Publicación:2019
Lenguaje:English
Colección:Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens / Worlds of South and Inner Asia / Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Asie Centrale : Im Auftrag der Schweizerischen Asiengesellschaft / On behalf of the Swiss Asia Society / Au nom de la Société Suisse-Asie , 9
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Situating the Encounter between Buddhist and Muslim Communities in South Asia
  • The Power of the Islamic Sword in Narrating the Death of Indian Buddhism
  • Reassessing the Muslim Attacks and the Decline of Buddhist Monasteries in the Thirteenth Century Magadha
  • The Narratives on the Bāmiyān Buddhist Remains in the Islamic Period
  • Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s Buddhists: Monuments, Memory, and the Materiality of Travel
  • Buddhism and Islam in Kashmir as Represented by Rājataraṅgiṇī Authors
  • The Avatāra in Medieval South Asian Contexts: Dynamic Translation Across Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic Traditions in the Ghaznavid Period
  • Buddhists, Hellenists, Muslims, and the Origin of Science
  • Medieval Endowment Cultures in Western India: Buddhist and Muslim Encounters – Some Preliminary Observations
  • List of Contributors
  • Index