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History of Civilizations of Central Asia
Volume IV - The age of achievement : A. D. 750 to the end of the fifteenth century
Part One: The historical, social and economic setting
Readers will discover through this six-volume work
cultures that flourished and vanished from the dawn of
civilization to the present time and how the history of the
ancient and medieval world was shaped by the movements of
peoples in this heartland of Eurasia, stretching from the
Caspian Sea to the borders of China.
Editors:
M. S. Asimov, President, Tajik Academy of Sciences, Dushanbe, Tajikistan
C. E. Bosworth, Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Summary:
During the eight centuries covered in this volume, the
new faith of Islam arose in Arabia and gradually spread
eastwards and northwards, eventually affecting much of Central
Asia, in the southern fringes of Siberia and the eastern
regions of China. These were also the centuries in which
nomadic and military empires arose in the heart of Asia,
impinging on the history of adjacent, well-established
civilizations and cultures - China, India, Islamic Western Asia
and Christian eastern and central Europe - to an unparalleled
extent. Although the region had always been content to absorb
influences from the surrounding civilizations in the long run,
however, it was Lamaist Buddhism which established itself in
the Mongolian region and in Tibet, and Islam among the Turkish
people of Transoxania, southern Siberia and Xinjiang. It was in
eastern Europe, above all in Russia, that the constituting of
the Turco-Mongol Golden Horde was to have a major, enduring
influence on the course of the region's history.