Encountering Buddhism and Islam in premodern central and South Asia
- Boston Walter de Gruyter, GmbH 2019
- 228p., bib.,ind., 24 cm X 16 cm
Introduction : situating the encounter between Buddhist and Muslim communities in South Asia / Blain Auer, Ingo Strauch The power of the Islamic sword in narrating the death of Indian Buddhism / Audrey Truschke Reassessing the Muslim attacks and the decline of Buddhist monasteries in the thirteenth century Magadha / Abhishek S. Amar The narratives on the Bāmiyān Buddhist remains in the Islamic period / Minoru Inaba Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's Buddhists : monuments, memory, and the materiality of travel / Tamara I. Sears Buddhism and Islam in Kashmir as represented by Rājataraṅgiṇī authors / Walter Slaje The Avatāra in medieval South Asian contexts : dynamic translation across Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic traditions in the Ghaznavid period / Sara Cappelletti Buddhists, Hellenists, Muslims, and the origin of science / Bart Dessein Medieval endowment cultures in western India : Buddhist and Muslim encounters - some preliminary observations / Annette Schmiedchen