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History of Central Asia
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Further Umayyad Expansion in West Turkistan
The remainder of the Umayyad period over the ensuing years of the first half of the eighth century saw a bewildering frequent change of alliances as even more powers entered the fray for control of West Turkistan and the Silk Route. Through a review of the main events, it will...
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Buddhist-Muslim Interaction: Umayyad Caliphate
Twelfth-Century Developments in Central Asia
The Establishment of the Jurchen Empire The Jurchen were a Tungusic Manchu people whose homeland was in northern Manchuria and the adjacent region of southeastern Siberia across the Amur River. They were forest dwellers whom the Khitans conscripted for their ritual hunts....
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Buddhist-Muslim Interaction: Later Abbasid Period
Ghurid Campaigns on the Indian Subcontinent
The Initial Military Drive across Northern India In 1148, Ala-ud-Din of the nomadic Guzz Turks from the mountains of Afghanistan conquered the region of Ghur in eastern Iran, which gave its name to his Ghurid Empire (1148 – 1215). He proceeded to take Bactria from the...
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Buddhist-Muslim Interaction: Later Abbasid Period
Buddhist-Muslim Interaction: Bibliography
This bibliography, compiled in 1996, contains materials for supplementing "The Historical Interaction between the Buddhist and Islamic Cultures before the Mongol Empire" from the previous Berzin Archives website with further parts on the Mongol and Post-Mongol Periods.]...
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Buddhist-Muslim Interaction: Later Abbasid Period
During the later Abbasid period (840–1258 CE), Islam slowly spread to West and East Turkistan and took a strong foothold on the Indian subcontinent.
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Buddhism & Islam: Advanced
Holy Wars in Buddhism and Islam
People know of the Muslim concept of jihad or holy war or the Crusades of Christianity, but do not usually view Buddhism as having anything similar. A careful examination of the Buddhist texts, however, particularly “The Kalachakra Tantra” literature, reveals both external and...
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Buddhism & Islam
History of Buddhism in Afghanistan
A comprehensive overview of the history of Buddhism in Afghanistan from shortly after the time of the Buddha up until the end of the Mongol period in the 14th century.
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Buddhism in Central Asia
Buddhist-Muslim Interaction: Early Abbasid Period
The early period of the Abbasid Caliphate (750–840 CE) saw the translation of Buddhist texts into not only the languages of East Turkistan, but also into Turkic languages and even some into Arabic, as Islam slowly spread into West Turkistan.
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Islam from the Point of View of Buddhism
A survey of the history of Buddhist-Muslim interaction during the first millennium after the Prophet, focusing on the level of knowledge that the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition had of Islam, as found in the Kalachakra literature, and the points that it had identified as being...
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Buddhism & Islam: Advanced
Buddhist-Muslim Doctrinal Relations
During the first millennium CE, Muslims were interested to learn of the beliefs of the peoples they had conquered and now ruled, including Buddhism, while Buddhists were interested in other beliefs only when they were vying with them in debate for royal patronage and that...
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Buddhism & Islam: Advanced
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