Iran After the Mongols
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View ArticleThe Muslim Merchants of Premodern China: The History of a Maritime Asian...
by John W. ChaffeePaperback: 212 pagesPublisher: Cambridge University Press (23 Aug. 2018)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1107684048In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with...
View ArticleMaking Mongol History: Rashid Al-Din and the Jami' Al-Tawarikh
by Stefan KamolaHardcover: 320 pagesPublisher: Edinburgh University Press (31 Aug. 2019)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1474421423This book examines the life and work of Rashid al-Din Tabib (d. 1318), the...
View ArticleThe Mongols in Iran: Qutb Al-Din Shirazi's Akhbar-i Moghulan
By George LaneHardcover: 136 pagesPublisher: Routledge; 1 edition (7 May 2018)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1138500526The polymath, Qutb al-Dīn Shīrāzī, operated at the heart of the Ilkhanate state...
View ArticleCaravanserai: Traces, Places, Dialogue in the Middle East
By Tom SchutyserHardcover: 180 pagesPublisher: 5 Continents Editions; Bilingual Edition: English & French ed. edition (30 Jan. 2019)Language: English, FrenchISBN-10: 887439604XA 'caravanserai' is a...
View ArticleNon-Han Literature Along the Silk Road
by Xiao Li (Editor)Hardcover: 151 pagesPublisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2020 edition (2 April 2020)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 9811396434This volume includes outstanding scientific articles on documents...
View ArticleAlong the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia
Generals, Merchants, and Intellectualsby Michal Biran, Jonathan Brack and Francesca Fiaschetti Hardcover: 342 pagesPublisher: University of California Press (25 Aug. 2020)Language: EnglishISBN-10:...
View ArticleLives of Sogdians in Medieval China
By Moritz HuberHardcover: 350 pagesPublisher: Harrassowitz (31 Mar. 2020)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 3447113804Sogdians, a group of Central Asians based between the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, played a...
View ArticleThe Metal Road of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe
The Formation of the Xiongnu Confederation and the Silk Road by Jianhua Yang, Huiqiu Shao and Ling PanHardcover: 640 pagesPublisher: Springer; 1st ed. 2020 edition (21 Feb. 2020)Language:...
View ArticleLecture of an hour on Buddhist Art by Mimi Gardner Gates (April 2019)
THE PAULINE AND JOSEPH DEGENFELDER FAMILY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN CHINESE ARTCaves of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road Speaker: Mimi Gardner Gates, Director Emerita, Seattle Art...
View ArticleWalking to Samarkand
The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asiaby Bernard OllivierHardcover: 312 pagesPublisher: Skyhorse (28 May 2020)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1510746897Walking to Samarkand is journalist Bernard...
View ArticleEmpire of Horses by John Man
The First Nomadic Civilization and the Making of China by John Man Hardcover: 336 pagesPublisher: Pegasus (3 Mar. 2020)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1643133276The author of landmark histories such as...
View ArticleThe Last Journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He
By Sheng-Wei WangPaperback: 400 pagesPublisher: Proverse Hong Kong (17 Nov. 2019)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 9888491814From 1405, in order to maintain and expand the Ming Dynasty’s tributary system,...
View ArticleThe Cumans and Magyars
The History and Legacy of the Steppe Nomads Who Raided Europe Throughout the Late Middle AgesPaperback: 135 pagesPublisher: Independently published (8 April 2020)Language: EnglishISBN-13:...
View ArticleMystery of unique 2,100-year-old human clay head
with a Ram's skull inside!From The Siberian TimesBy Anna Prokhozheva09 April 2020Modern fluoroscopy identifies sheep bones inside the Tagar culture death mask.X-ray technology of the period indicated...
View ArticleVisualizing Dunhuang
Seeing, Studying, and Conserving the Caves Publications of the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University Paperback 17 Nov. 2020by Dora C. Y. Ching, Neville Agnew, Jun Hu, & 2...
View ArticleUzbekistan: The Road to Samarkand
by Yaffa Assouline (Author), Laziz Hamani (Photographer)Hardcover: 336 pagesPublisher: Assouline Publishing (February 26, 2020)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1614288917At the heart of Central Asia lies a...
View ArticleThe Wonders of Creation and the Singularities of Painting
A Study of the Ilkhanid London Qazvini (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art)by Stefano CarboniPaperback: 456 pagesPublisher: Edinburgh University Press (11 Feb. 2020)Language: EnglishISBN-10:...
View ArticleThe Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang
The Cultures of Ancient Xinjiang, Western China: Crossroads of the Silk Roadsby Alison Betts, Marika Vicziany, Peter Weiming Jia and Angelo Andrea Di CastroPaperback: 218 pagesPublisher: Archaeopress...
View Article1700 year old face behind stunning mask from Eastern Siberia region ( north...
Lifelike face of a tattooed Tashtyk man seen for first time behind a stunning gypsum death maskFrom The Siberian TimesBy Anna Ledovskikh and Svetlana Pankova12 July 2020Aged 25 to 30 when he died...
View ArticleThe Great Mongol Shahnameh
By Robert HillenbrandHardcover : 544 pagesISBN-10 : 1898113831ISBN-13 : 978-1898113836Product Dimensions : 30 x 15 x 32.7 cmPublisher : Yale University Press (23 Feb. 2021)Language: : EnglishA...
View ArticleIslam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia
Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatoliaby A. C. S. PeacockISBN-10 : 1108713483Paperback : 323 pagesISBN-13 : 978-1108713481Publisher : Cambridge University Press (12 Nov. 2020)Language: :...
View ArticleRebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest
Rebuilding Anatolia after the Mongol Conquest: Islamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum, 1240–1330 (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies) Hardcover / Paperback/ Kindleby Patricia Blessing Hardcover...
View ArticleGold of the Great Steppe at the Fitzwilliam Museum: Curator's preview
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View ArticleDigital exhibition "The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads" available
May 7, 2019The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk RoadsWho were the Sogdians? While mostly lost to history, these ancient people of the Silk Roads shaped the world around them—not with an empire or an...
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