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Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road - Johan Elverskog

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

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Buch | Softcover
352 Seiten
2013
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-2259-3 (ISBN)
CHF 56,90 inkl. MwSt
This groundbreaking work challenges contemporary stereotypes by revealing how both Buddhist and Muslim religious traditions were shaped by a millennium of cross-cultural exchange along the Silk Road from Iran to China.
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.

Johan Elverskog is Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of the Religious Studies Department at Southern Methodist University.

Introduction

Chapter One: Contact

Chapter Two: Understanding

Chapter Three: Idolatry

Chapter Four: Jihad

Chapter Five: Halal

Conclusion


Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

Erscheint lt. Verlag 16.4.2013
Reihe/Serie Encounters with Asia
Zusatzinfo 48 illus.
Verlagsort Pennsylvania
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
ISBN-10 0-8122-2259-8 / 0812222598
ISBN-13 978-0-8122-2259-3 / 9780812222593
Zustand Neuware
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