Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road Johan Elverskog Winner of the 2011 Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion Selected by Choice magazine as an…
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Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road Johan Elverskog Winner of the 2011 Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 "Johan Elverskog is exceedingly well read in the relevant literature, and his book is fascinating and thought-provoking."--TLS "[Elverskog] challenges deeply ingrained misperceptions about the historical relationship between Buddhism and Islam, and more importantly challenges us to rethink more broadly many of our assumptions about cultural encounters across Eurasia and the basis on which they rest. This is "world history" at its best, avoiding the oversimplifications of model building that have sometimes framed that subject."--The Silk Road "The book, brilliantly moving from the interaction between economic and religious regimes to