Warrior Saints of the Silk Road - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Warrior Saints of the Silk Road write by Jeff Eden. This book was released on 2018-11-05. Warrior Saints of the Silk Road available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For generations, Central Asian Muslims have told legends of medieval rulers who waged war, died in battle, and achieved sainthood. Among the Uyghurs of East Turkistan (present-day Xinjiang, China), some of the most beloved legends tell of the warrior-saint Satuq Bughra Khan and his descendants, the rulers of the Qarakhanid dynasty. To this day, these tales are recited at the saints' shrines and retold on any occasion. Warrior Saints of the Silk Road introduces this rich literary tradition, presenting the first complete English translation of the Qarakhanid narrative cycle along with an accessible commentary. At once mesmerizing, moving, and disturbing, these legends are essential texts in Central Asia's religious heritage as well as fine, enduring works of mystical literature.
Sufi Warrior Saints
Sufi Warrior Saints - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sufi Warrior Saints write by Harry S. Neale. This book was released on 2022-03-24. Sufi Warrior Saints available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a thematic collection of hagiographical stories of Sufi saints, often referred to as friends of Gods. Despite the diverse wealth of Sufi works, much of the rich, global and centuries old literature of Sufi warrior-saints, has yet to be translated into English. Examining hagiographical depictions of Sufi mujahids, Neale corrects frequent misunderstandings of the term jihad in relation to Sufi thought and practice. Using Sufi hagiography, treatises, travel narratives and Muslim histories, each chapter comprises the lives of Sufi saints during significant historical events, from the Crusades to the Mongol Invasion and in regions ranging from Islamic Spain to North Africa and India. Using Persian and Arabic sources, this compendium of translated hagiographies gives us a sense of the range, themes and global dissemination of the Sufi literature on war and heroism.
Qarakhanid Roads to China
Qarakhanid Roads to China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Qarakhanid Roads to China write by Dilnoza Duturaeva. This book was released on 2022-02-28. Qarakhanid Roads to China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Qarakhanid Roads to China reconsiders the diplomacy, trade and geography of transcontinental networks between Central Asia and China from the 10th to the 12th centuries and challenges the concept of “the Silk Road crisis” in the period between the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the rise of the Mongols. Utilizing a broad range of Islamic and Chinese primary sources together with archaeological data, Dilnoza Duturaeva demonstrates the complexity of interaction along the Silk Roads and beyond that, revolutionizes our understanding of the Qarakhanid world and Song-era China’s relations with neighboring regions.
Beyond the Silk and Book Roads
Beyond the Silk and Book Roads - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Silk and Book Roads write by Michelle C. Wang. This book was released on 2023-11-27. Beyond the Silk and Book Roads available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Silk Road studies has often treated material artifacts and manuscripts separately. This interdisciplinary volume expands the scope of transcultural transmission, questions what constituted a “book,” and explores networks of circulation shared by material artifacts and manuscripts. Featuring new research in English by international scholars in Buddhist studies, art history, and literary studies, the essays in Beyond the Silk and Book Roads chart new and exciting directions in Silk Road studies. Contributors are: Ge Jiyong, George A. Keyworth, Ding Li, Ryan Richard Overbey, Hao Chunwen, Wu Shaowei, Liu Yi, Lan Wu, Sha Wutian, Michelle C. Wang, and Stephen Roddy.
Buddhism in Central Asia III
Buddhism in Central Asia III - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhism in Central Asia III write by . This book was released on 2024-04-11. Buddhism in Central Asia III available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The BuddhistRoad project has been creating a new framework to understand the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer across premodern Eastern Central Asia. This framework includes a new focus on the complex interactions between Buddhism and non-Buddhist traditions and a deepening of the traditional focus on Buddhist doctrines between the 6th and 14th centuries, as Buddhism continued to spread along an ancient, local political-economic-cultural system of exchange, often referred to as the Silk Roads. This volume brings together world renowned experts to discuss these issues including Buddhism and Christianity, Islam, Daoism, Manichaeism, local indigenous traditions, Tantra etc. Contributors include: Daniel Berounský, Michal Biran, Max Deeg, Lewis Doney, Mélodie Doumy, Meghan Howard Masang, Yukiyo Kasai, Diego Loukota†, Carmen Meinert, Sam van Schaik, Henrik H. Sørensen, and Jens Wilkens.
