Richard C. Foltz
Auteur de Religions of the Silk Road: Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century
A propos de l'auteur
Richard Foltz is Professor of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University, Canada.
Œuvres de Richard C. Foltz
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Conversations With Emperor Jahangir (Bibliotheca Iranica: Literature Series) (1998) — Traducteur — 7 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1961
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada
- Études
- Harvard University (PhD)
- Professions
- scholar of Middle Eastern history
university professor - Organisations
- Concordia University [Montreal]
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 14
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 347
- Popularité
- #68,853
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 39
- Langues
- 3
Anyway the central argument of the book is interesting and somewhat useful. At least it provides some glue to hold the book together. But for me... I am a total amateur in this realms, but - OK, go get the CD in the Secret Museum of Mankind series, the CD dedicated to Central Asian music, compiled from old 78 rpm disks, from like the 1920s and 1930s. If you weren't fascinated with Central Asia before, surely you will be after listening! Or maybe I had some not-too-long-ago incarnation in Central Asia, who knows. Anyway, this book is chock full of fantastic tidbits, amazing little nuggets about ancient cities etc. There are dozens of historical fiction novels that could be seeded from sentences in this book!
It's got a good bibliography too, so wherever you might want to dig in, there is at least a starting point provided. Nothing about this book is comprehensive. It's a grand appetizer though!… (plus d'informations)