Studies In The Chronology Of The Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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Studies In The Chronology Of The Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Studies In The Chronology Of The Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Bactrian language categories.
Studies In The Chronology Of The Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press
Release Date : 2018
Studies In The Chronology Of The Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by Austrian Academy of Sciences Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Afghanistan categories.
More than 150 documents in Bactrian, the chief administrative language of pre-Islamic Afghanistan, have come to light during the last twenty-five years. These documents include letters, legal contracts, economic documents and a few Buddhist texts; many of them bear dates in the so-called "Bactrian era", which is also known from a few inscriptions, such as the Tochi valley inscriptions in Pakistan, but whose starting-point is controversial. The Bactrian documents have the potential to transform our knowledge of the history of the region during the 4th to 8th centuries CE, a period for which we have few contemporary records, but before they can be fully exploited as historical sources it is necessary to establish their relative and absolute chronology. The present volume aims to fulfil this need. In Part 1 we consider the dated documents, discussing the nature of the Bactrian calendar and the epoch of the Bactrian era, and concluding with a conspectus in which all the attested dates are converted to Julian dates on the basis of the facts and arguments presented. In Part 2 we turn to the equally important undated documents, systematically weighing up all types of evidence, whether historical, prosopographical, palaeographical, linguistic or orthographic, which may have a bearing on their dating. Part 3 provides a handy check-list of our conclusions, while the Appendices provide additional and supporting material including editions of the Tochi valley inscriptions and of a Pahlavi letter which was purchased together with the Bactrian documents. This book will be required reading for scholars and students of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic history of Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia. It will also be a useful resource for those interested in the languages, religions and numismatics of the region.
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2000
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, was virtually unknown before the recent discovery of more than a hundred leather documents written in Bactrian in a local variant of the Greek alphabet. As well as revealing an important new language of the Indo-European family, these documents shed light on the history and culture of Afghanistan during the 4th to 8th centuries AD, a turbulent period during which power changed hands many times, ending with the Arab conquest and the introduction of Islam. The three volumes of this series provide a comprehensive edition of the texts, with translations, photographs, glossary, and indexes, making this rich material available to linguists and historians alike.
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher: Khalili Collections
Release Date : 2012-01-31
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by Khalili Collections this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Accounts categories.
Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, was virtually unknown before the recent discovery of more than a hundred leather documents written in Bactrian in a local variant of the Greek alphabet. As well as revealing an important new language of the Indo-European family, these documents shed light on the history and culture of Afghanistan during the 4th to 8th centuries AD, a turbulent period during which power changed hands many times, ending with the Arab conquest and the introduction of Islam. The three volumes of this series provide a comprehensive edition of the texts, with translations, photographs, glossary, and indexes, making this rich material available to linguists and historians alike.
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Afghanistan categories.
Bactrian, the ancient language of Afghanistan, was virtually unknown before the recent discovery of more than a hundred leather documents written in Bactrian in a local variant of the Greek alphabet. As well as revealing an important new language of the Indo-European family, these documents shed light on the history and culture of Afghanistan during the 4th to 8th centuries AD, a turbulent period during which power changed hands many times, ending with the Arab conquest and the introduction of Islam. The three volumes of this series provide a comprehensive edition of the texts, with translations, photographs, glossary, and indexes, making this rich material available to linguists and historians alike.
New Light On Ancient Afghanistan
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
New Light On Ancient Afghanistan written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Afghanistan categories.
Bactrian is an ancient language of northern Afghanistan, belonging to the family of Indo-European languages and so related to both Persian and Pashto. This lecture gives a historical overview of Bactrian studies and assesses the importance of recently discovered manuscripts for the field.
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan Letters And Buddhist Texts
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Author : Nicholas Sims-Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Bactrian Documents From Northern Afghanistan Letters And Buddhist Texts written by Nicholas Sims-Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Afghanistan categories.
Studies Of Bactrian Legal Documents
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Author : Hossein Sheikh
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-12-05
Studies Of Bactrian Legal Documents written by Hossein Sheikh and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-05 with History categories.
Studies of Bactrian Legal Documents deals with the legal practice in Greater Khorasan between the 4th and 8th centuries CE.
The Lost Archive
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Author : Marina Rustow
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-01-14
The Lost Archive written by Marina Rustow and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14 with Religion categories.
A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentation The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer. Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region’s administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology. Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.
Archaeology Of Afghanistan
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Author : Allchin Raymond Allchin
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-03
Archaeology Of Afghanistan written by Allchin Raymond Allchin and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-03 with History categories.
Afghanistan is at the cultural crossroads of Asia, where the great civilisations of Mesopotamia and Iran, South Asia and Central Asia overlapped and sometimes conflicted. Its landscape embraces environments from the high mountains of the Hindu Kush to the Oxus basin and the great deserts of Sistan; trade routes from China to the Mediterranean, and from Central Asia to the Arabian Sea cross the country. It has seen the development of early agriculture, the spread of Bronze Age civilisation of Central Asia, the conquests of the Persians and of Alexander of Macedon, the spread of Buddhism and then Islam, and the empires of the Kushans, Ghaznavids, Ghurids and Timurids centred there, with ramifications across southern Asia. All of which has resulted in some of the most important, diverse and spectacular historical remains in Asia.First published in 1978, this was the first book in English to provide a complete survey of the immensely rich archaeological remains of Afghanistan. The contributors, all acknowledged scholars in their field, have worked in the country, on projects ranging from prehistoric surveys to the study of Islamic architecture. It has now been thoroughly revised and brought up to date to incorporate the latest discoveries and research.