Islam And Tibet

Author : Anna Akasoy,Charles Burnett,Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351926058

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Islam and Tibet – Interactions along the Musk Routes by Anna Akasoy,Charles Burnett,Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim Pdf

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 political contacts went along with an increasing interest in the other side. Cultural exchanges and the transmission of knowledge were facilitated by a trading network, with musk constituting one of the main trading goods from the Himalayas, largely through India. From the thirteenth century onwards the spread of the Mongol Empire from the Western borders of Europe through Central Asia to China facilitated further exchanges. The significance of these interactions has been long ignored in scholarship. This volume represents a major contribution to the subject, bringing together new studies by an interdisciplinary group of international scholars. They explore for the first time the multi-layered contacts between the Islamic world, Central Asia and the Himalayas from the eighth century until the present day in a variety of fields, including geography, cartography, art history, medicine, history of science and education, literature, hagiography, archaeology, and anthropology.

Author : Abdul Wahid Radhu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000081010138

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Islam in Tibet by Abdul Wahid Radhu Pdf

This first-hand account of Tibetan life within a sacred society prior to the Chinese invasion is the most complete and definitive work to date on the subject of Islam in Tibet. It reveals fascinating interplay between the traditional cultures of Islam and Buddhism; the spiritual lives of these very different traditions recognize one another at a level behind external forms.

Author : David G. Atwill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520299733

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Islamic Shangri-La by David G. Atwill Pdf

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Islamic Shangri-La transports readers to the heart of the Himalayas as it traces the rise of the Tibetan Muslim community from the 17th century to the present. Radically altering popular interpretations that have portrayed Tibet as isolated and monolithically Buddhist, David Atwill's vibrant account demonstrates how truly cosmopolitan Tibetan society was by highlighting the hybrid influences and internal diversity of Tibet. In its exploration of the Tibetan Muslim experience, this book presents an unparalleled perspective of Tibet's standing during the rise of post-World War II Asia.

Author : Abu Bakr Amir-uddin Nadwi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8186470352

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Tibet and Tibetan Muslims by Abu Bakr Amir-uddin Nadwi Pdf

Author : Abdul Wahid Radhu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9386582295

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Tibetan Caravans by Abdul Wahid Radhu Pdf

Born into an eminent merchant family in Ladakh in 1918, Khwaja Abdul Wahid Radhu, often described as 'the last caravaneer of Tibet and Central Asia', led an unusual life of adventure, inspiration and enlightenment. His family, and later he, had the ancestral honour of leading the biannual caravan which carried the Ladakhi kings' tribute and homage to the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan government. Tibetan Caravans, his memoir, is an unparalleled narrative about trans-Himalayan trade--the riches, the politics and protocol, the challenging yet magnificent natural landscape, altitude sickness, snow storms, bandits and raiders, monks and soldiers. The book also contains rare and fascinating details about the close connections between Ladakh, Tibet and Kashmir, the centuries-old interplay between Buddhism and Islam in the region, the Chinese occupation of Tibet, and life in Lhasa before and after its takeover by China. In this rich and insightful memoir, Abdul Wahid Radhu reminisces about a bygone era when borders were fluid, and mutual respect formed the basis for trade relations across cultures and people. As his son, Siddiq Wahid, says in his introduction, Tibetan Caravans is a testimony to the organic relationships between 'societies who have learned how to hear each other out, argue, even do battle and yet remain hospitable to each other.'

Author : Marie-Paule Hille,Bianca Horlemann,Paul K. Nietupski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739175309

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Muslims in Amdo Tibetan Society by Marie-Paule Hille,Bianca Horlemann,Paul K. Nietupski Pdf

This book examines the role of Muslims in Amdo society. The contributors challenge established stereotypes of Tibetan–Muslim relations and explore historical, socio-economic, political, religious, and linguistic aspects of Tibetan, Muslim, and Chinese interactions in this borderland region.

Author : Reza Shah-Kazemi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000127140154

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Common Ground Between Islam and Buddhism by Reza Shah-Kazemi Pdf

"[Common Ground is] ... an earnest attempt to help Muslims to see Buddhism as a true religion, and Buddhists to see Islam as an authentic Dharma."--Professor Mohammad Hashim Kamali (from his Foreword) --Book Jacket.

Author : David G. Atwill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520299733

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Islamic Shangri-La by David G. Atwill Pdf

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Islamic Shangri-La transports readers to the heart of the Himalayas as it traces the rise of the Tibetan Muslim community from the 17th century to the present. Radically altering popular interpretations that have portrayed Tibet as isolated and monolithically Buddhist, David Atwill's vibrant account demonstrates how truly cosmopolitan Tibetan society was by highlighting the hybrid influences and internal diversity of Tibet. In its exploration of the Tibetan Muslim experience, this book presents an unparalleled perspective of Tibet's standing during the rise of post-World War II Asia.

Author : Fabienne Le Houérou
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643914453

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Tibetan Muslims by Fabienne Le Houérou Pdf

This book focuses on the minority of Tibetan Muslims among the Tibetan Diaspora. Most scholars remain unaware of the Tibetan Muslim community or its associations with Buddhism and the Dalai Lama. As a religious and political leader, he is the embodiment of Tibetan space, territory, population, religion, and identity. The Western public has assumed a monolithic vision of Tibet as a pure Buddhist Theocracy. However, Tibet was impacted by other religions, i.e. Christianity and Islam. The 1.000,000 Tibetan refugees in India are one of the largest Tibetan Diaspora; the majority are Buddhist, and the Muslim minority is estimated at no more than a few hundred families. Tibetan Muslims constitute a minority within another Tibetan Buddhist minority of exiled Tibetans in India. The study based on field research emphasizes a hybrid process of the Tibetan Muslim's Diaspora in exile. A cultural Buddhist Tibetan heritage associated with Kashmiri Muslim rituals and customs creates hybrid cultural practices and traditions, which could be characterized as rhizomatic.

Author : R. Michael Feener,Anne M. Blackburn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824872113

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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia by R. Michael Feener,Anne M. Blackburn Pdf

Over the last few decades historians and other scholars have succeeded in identifying diverse patterns of connection linking religious communities across Asia and beyond. Yet despite the fruits of this specialist research, scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies have rarely engaged with each other to share investigative approaches and methods of interpretation. This volume was conceived to open up new spaces of creative interaction between scholars in both fields that will increase our understanding of the circulation and localization of religious texts, institutional models, ritual practices, and literary specialists. The book’s approach is to scrutinize one major dimension of the history of religion in Southern Asia: religious orders. “Orders” (here referring to Sufi ṭarīqas and Buddhist monastic and other ritual lineages) established means by which far-flung local communities could come to be recognized and engaged as part of a broader world of co-religionists, while presenting their particular religious traditions and their human representatives as attractive and authoritative to potential new communities of devotees. Contributors to the volume direct their attention toward analogous developments mutually illuminating for both fields of study. Some explain how certain orders took shape in Southern Asia over the course of the nineteenth century, contextualizing these institutional developments in relation to local and transregional political formations, shifting literary and ritual preferences, and trade connections. Others show how the circulation of people, ideas, texts, objects, and practices across Southern Asia, a region in which both Buddhism and Islam have a long and substantial presence, brought diverse currents of internal reform and notions of ritual and lineage purity to the region. All chapters draw readers’ attention to the fact that networked persons were not always strongly institutionalized and often moved through Southern Asia and developed local bases without the oversight of complex corporate organizations. Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia brings cutting-edge research to bear on conversations about how “orders” have functioned within these two traditions to expand and sustain transregional religious networks. It will help to develop a better understanding of the complex roles played by religious networks in the history of Southern Asia.

Author : Johan Elverskog
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812205312

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Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road by Johan Elverskog Pdf

In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the stereotypes of Buddhism as a peaceful, rational philosophy and Islam as an inherently violent and irrational religion. But if Buddhist-Muslim history was simply repeated instances of Muslim militants attacking representations of the Buddha, how had the Bamiyan Buddha statues survived thirteen hundred years of Muslim rule? Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road demonstrates that the history of Buddhist-Muslim interaction is much richer and more complex than many assume. This groundbreaking book covers Inner Asia from the eighth century through the Mongol empire and to the end of the Qing dynasty in the late nineteenth century. By exploring the meetings between Buddhists and Muslims along the Silk Road from Iran to China over more than a millennium, Johan Elverskog reveals that this long encounter was actually one of profound cross-cultural exchange in which two religious traditions were not only enriched but transformed in many ways.

Author : Kurtis R. Schaeffer,Matthew Kapstein,Gray Tuttle
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Tibet Autonomous Region (China)
ISBN : 9780231135993

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Sources of Tibetan Tradition by Kurtis R. Schaeffer,Matthew Kapstein,Gray Tuttle Pdf

The most comprehensive collection of classic Tibetan works in any Western language.

Author : Jonathan N. Lipman
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295800554

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Familiar Strangers by Jonathan N. Lipman Pdf

The Chinese-speaking Muslims have for centuries been an inseperable but anomalous part of Chinese society--Sinophone yet incomprehensible, local yet outsiders, normal but different. Long regarded by the Chinese government as prone to violence, they have challenged fundamental Chinese conceptiosn of Self and Other and denied the totally transforming power of Chinese civilization by tenaciously maintaining connectios with Central and West Asia as well as some cultural differences from their non-Muslim neighbors. Familiar Strangers narrates a history of the Muslims of northwest China, at the intersection of the frontiers of the Mongolian-Manchu, Tibetan, Turkic, and Chinese cultural regions. Based on primary and secondary sources in a variety of languages, Familiar Strangers examines the nature of ethnicity and periphery, the role of religion and ethnicity in personal and collective decisions in violent times, and the complexity of belonging to two cultures at once. Concerning itself with a frontier very distant from the core areas of Chinese culture and very strange to most Chinese, it explores the influence of language, religion, and place on Sino-Muslim identity.

Author : Matthew S. Erie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107053373

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China and Islam by Matthew S. Erie Pdf

This book is the first ethnographic study of Muslim minorities' practice of Islamic law in contemporary China.

Author : Rian Thum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674967021

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The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History by Rian Thum Pdf

For 250 years the Turkic Muslims of Tibet, who call themselves Uyghurs today, have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges Beijing’s national narrative. The roots of this history run deeper than recent conflicts, Rian Thum says, to a time when manuscripts and pilgrimage along the Silk Road dominated understandings of the past.