Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Early Inner Eurasia 2. The Turks 3. The Mongols 4. The Tunguz and the Manchus Conclusions Postcript (2011) Notes Bibliography Index One: Names of Persons, Deities etc. Index Two: Names of Peoples Index Three: Subjects

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Presents a survey of the indigenous pre-Christian and pre-Muslim religions of Central Asia. This title describes a common inheritance among the beliefs of the various people who have lived in central Asia or have migrated from there: Scythians, Mongols, Manchus, Finns and Hungarians.

About the Author

Julian Baldick was, until his retirement in 2007, Reader in the Study of Religions at King's College London. He is the author of Homer and the Indo-Europeans: Comparing Mythologies; Black God: The Asiatic Roots of Jewish, Christian and Muslim Religions; and Mystical Islam: An Introduction to Sufism (new edition, 2012), all published by I.B.Tauris.

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'A wide-ranging, comparative study which draws on archaeological, literary and ethnographic sources from the first millennium BCE to the present, to discern common features in the ancient customs and native religions of Inner Eurasia - Provides a great service in collating and making a large body of obscure information available in English.' - Ken Teague in Asian Affairs 'Unless you can trawl through academic journals, or read French, there's so little in the way of historical work on indigenous steppe religion. It's great to have this: a survey that pulls together the information, and tries to draw together the common threads.' -Bryn Hammond Amazon.com