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Chargement... Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road (Encounters with Asia)par Johan Elverskog
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A disappointment; written with a definite edge...an academic inquiry that fails to be objective. ( ) Buddhist-Muslim history is usually summed up in two historic events, one ancient and one modern: the destruction of Nalanda in 1202 and the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddha by the Taliban in 2001. But in Elverskog's words "shining a light on the history of Buddhist-Muslim interaction" is a far more nuanced and interesting story than most realize. Five chapters and 63 pages of extensive endnotes trace this history from its beginnings (700-1000 CE) linking the two religions through the Mongol empire (1100-1400 CE), to the 20th century. Economic goals and trade play a key role, but so do art, literature and philosophy. The regional focus is that area between Afghanistan and Mongolia known as the Silk Road, but where appropriate Elverskog dips into other territory. Readers need an existing familiarity with the basic tenets of both Islam and Buddhism, but with such a foundation the riches of this book keep it a page-turner. Elverskog makes his intent known from the beginning: "What happened when Buddhists and Muslims actually came into contact with one another?" It is the discoveries of how each was transformed by such contact, especially during their early years, that is this book's reward. "The most well-known example ... is the borrowing of the Buddhist monastery as a model in the development of the Islamic madrasa, which itself became the basis of the university in the Christian West." There are countless more examples, such as the shape of Buddhist stupas influencing Islamic metalwork, medical knowledge, divination squares and "blockprinted Arabic amulets that seem to have a Buddhist origin". And although the subject is more academic than popular, Elverskog's colorful choice of language ("Kurtzean images" ... "Buddhist death squads") keeps the pace active and the information rewarding. I've read many dozens of books on the Silk Road yet this volume contains information and ideas seldom found elsewhere--for example, the material sourced from the 13th century Compendium of Chronicles: Rashid ad-Din's Illustrated History of the World, which amongst many interesting facts confirms that there were Chinese Buddhists in il-khanid Iran.A COMPENDIUM OF CHRONICLES: Rashid al-Din's Illustrated History of the World (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL XXVII) I would have said that this wasn't a book for the general reader, or perhaps even someone who didn't have an academic disposition or position, but that was proven wrong this past autumn when, outside of Kashgar, our Uighur guide spotted this book and asked to borrow it. Rather than forcibly ripping it out of his hands at the end of the trip, we finally left it with him and bought two new copies. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Références à cette œuvre sur des ressources externes. Wikipédia en anglais (23)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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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