Foreword
Doudou Diène
Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Approaches Old and New to the
Silk Roads
Vadime Elisseeff
Chapter 1. Perspectives on Buddhism in Dunhuang
during the Tang and Five Dynasties Period
Henrik H. Sørensen
Chapter 2. The Expansion of Buddhism into
Southeast Asia (Mainly before A.D. 1000)
J.G. de Casparis
Chapter 3. The Travels of Marco Polo in the
Land of Buddhism
Ananda Abeydeera
Chapter 4. Indus-Gulf Relations: A Reassessment
in the Light of New Evidence
Nilofer Shaikh
Chapter 5. The Southern Silk Road:
Archaeological Evidence of Early Trade between India and Southeast
Asia
Ian C. Glover
Chapter 6. An Inscription in Memory of Sayyid
Bin Abu Ali: A Study of Relations between China and Oman from
the
Eleventh to the Fifteenth Century
Liu Yingsheng
Chapter 7. The Mongol Empire in the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Centuries: East-West Relations
Bira Shagdar
Chapter 8. A Brunei Sultan of the Early
Fourteenth Century: A Study of an Arabic Gravestone
Chen Da-sheng
Chapter 9. Caravanserais along the Grand Trunk
Road in Pakistan: A Central Asian Legacy
Saifur Rahman Dar
Chapter 10. Maritime Trade from the Fourteenth
to the Seventeenth Century: Evidence from the Underwater
Archaeological Sites in the Gulf of Siam
Sayan Prishanchit
Chapter 11. The Ban on the Export of Certain
Articles from the Levant to the Mediterranean Ports during the
Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Zeki Arikan
Chapter 12. The Impact of the Macao-Manila Silk
Trade from the Beginnings to 1640
Rui D’Ávila Lourido
Chapter 13. Inner Asian Muslim Merchants at the
Closure of the Silk Routes in the Seventeenth Century
Isenbike Togan
Chapter 14. The Exchange of Musical Influences
between Korea and Central Asia in Ancient Times
Song Bang-Song
Chapter 15. The Trade Routes and the Diffusion
of Artistic Traditions in South and Southeast Asia
Nandana Chutiwongs
Chapter 16. The Development of China’s
Navigation Technology and of the Maritime Silk Route
Sun Guangqi
Chapter 17. Mongol Nomadic Pastoralism: A
Tradition between Nature and History
Jacques Legrand
Chapter 18. The Spiritual Identity of the Silk
Roads: A Historical Overview of Buddhism and Islam
Amir H. Zekrgoo
Appendix: International Seminars and Colloquiums Held during the UNESCO Silk Roads Expeditions
Vadime Elisseeff (1918-2002) was Chairman of the UNESCO International Consultative Committee of the Silk Roads during the ten years of its existence. He is a specialist in the archaeology and history of the Far East and has held a number of important posts in national and international academic or cultural institutions such as that of General Inspector of the Museums of France and Director of Research in Archaeology of the Far East at the Ecole pratique des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and was a member of the French Commission for Archaeological Excavations from 1955 to 1968.
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