Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Contact
Chapter Two: Understanding
Chapter Three: Idolatry
Chapter Four: Jihad
Chapter Five: Halal
Conclusion
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments

About the Author

E. E. Kuzmina is Chief Research Officer at the Russian Institute for Cultural Researches of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of many books and has led numerous archaeological expeditions in Central Asia. Victor H. Mair is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the coauthor of The Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West.

Reviews

"A major advance in the field of the early history and archaeology of central Asia."--Nicola Di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study