Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions along the Musk Routes

http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/islamtibet/lunchtimelecture.html

Islam and Tibet: Cultural Interactions along the Musk Routes
Warburg Institute Lunchtime lecture - 2 February 2006

In their lunch time lecture Dr. Akasoy and Dr. Yoeli-Tlalim presented four aspects of their research:

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The musk routes: In Arabic literature from the 9th century onwards Tibet is frequently described as the land of musk. A variety of sources attest to the importance of the musk trading routes for the contacts between Islamic and Tibetan cultures. A comparison of the uses of musk in Islamic and Tibetan medicines revealed, for example, that alongside musk as a trading good, ideas of its use travelled as well.
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BOOK: Casale, G. 2010. The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford U. Press USA.

Src: H-Net list for Asian History and Culture (H-ASIA--at--H-NET.MSU.EDU)

April 15, 2010

Member Publication: "The Ottoman Age of Exploration" by Giancarlo Casale
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From: Giancarlo Casale (glcasale--at--gmail.com)

Dear List Members,

I'm pleased to announce the publication of my new book, The Ottoman Age of
Exploration (Oxford University Press USA, February 25, 2010). Book
description and table of contents follow. Thank you for your indulgence,

Giancarlo Casale

Description:

In 1517, the Ottoman Sultan Selim the Grim conquered Egypt and brought
his empire for the first time in history into direct contact with the
trading world of the Indian Ocean. During the decades that followed, the
Ottomans became progressively more engaged in the affairs of this vast and
previously unfamiliar region, eventually to the point of launching a
systematic ideological, military and commercial challenge to the
Portuguese Empire, their main rival for control of the lucrative trade
routes of maritime Asia.

The Ottoman Age of Exploration is the first comprehensive historical
account of this century-long struggle for global dominance, a struggle
that raged from the shores of the Mediterranean to the Straits of Malacca,
and from the interior of Africa to the steppes of Central Asia. Based on
extensive research in the archives of Turkey and Portugal, as well as
materials written on three continents and in a half dozen languages, it
presents an unprecedented picture of the global reach of the Ottoman state
during the sixteenth century. It does so through a dramatic recounting of
the lives of sultans and viziers, spies, corsairs, soldiers-of-fortune,
and women from the imperial harem. Challenging traditional narratives of
Western dominance, it argues that the Ottomans were not only active
participants in the Age of Exploration, but ultimately bested the
Portuguese in the game of global politics by using sea power, dynastic
prestige, and commercial savoir faire to create their own imperial
dominion throughout the Indian Ocean.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: An Empire of the Mind (pp.3-12)
Chapter One: Selim the Navigator, 1512-1520 (pp.13-33)
Chapter Two: Ibrahim Pasha and the Age of Reconnaissance, 1520-1536
(pp.34-52)
Chapter Three: Hadim Süleiman Pasha's World War, 1536-1546 (pp.53-83)
Chapter Four: Rüstem Pasha versus the Indian Ocean Faction, 1546-1561
(pp.84-116)
Chapter Five: Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and the Apogee of Empire, 1561-1579
(pp.117-151)
Chapter Six: A Man, a Plan, a Canal: Mir Ali Beg's Expeditions to the
Swahili Coast, 1579-1589 (pp.152-179)
Chapter Seven: The Death of Politics (pp.180-204)

Notes: pp.205-248
Works Cited: pp.249-270
Index: pp.271-281

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Networks of Trade in the Caucasus, 1750-1925

http://www.arisc.org/Projects-&-Programs

ARISC Graduate Fellowships 2009-10

The American Research Institute of the Southern Caucasus (ARISC)
announces the recipients of the 2009-10 Graduate Fellowship competition.

- Megan Dean (Stanford University): Neither Empire Nor Nation:
Networks of Trade in the Caucasus, 1750-1925.
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http://www.arisc.org/Projects-&-Programs

"Neither Empire Nor Nation: Networks of Trade in the Caucasus, 1750-1925"
Megan Dean, Ph.D. candidate (Stanford University)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
5:30pm
ISET building (CRRC)
Zandukeli 16
Tbilisi, Georgia
Megan Dean will be presenting her ongoing research, "Neither Empire Nor Nation: Networks of Trade in the Caucasus, 1750-1925" at Tbilisi's Caucasus Research Resources Center (CRRC) on March 31st at 5:30 pm. Her work probes the limits of identity politics, state control and violence and explores how basic economic exchanges and cultural interactions unfolded in daily life in the Caucasus, a frontier zone of multiple empires.  A 2010 recipient of the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) Graduate Fellowship for her research at the National Archives of Georgia, she is also a Ph.D. Candidate in history at Stanford University in California.
http://www.arisc.org/Projects-&-Programs

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[Online] Publications on Indo-Portuguese History and Culture

http://www.scribd.com/teodesouza

12 Apr 2010

Professor Teotonio R. de Souza: [Online] Publications on Indo-Portuguese History and Culture

www.scribd.com, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Supplied note:
"Teotonio R. de Souza was born in Goa in 1947. Studied at the University of Poona for Master's and PhD in History (1970-1977). Professed member of the Society of Jesus (1967-1994), collaborated in founding the Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Goa in 1979. PhD guide in History of the Goa University (1985-1994) and visiting Professor of Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth (Poona) and Vidyajyoti (Delhi). Recovered Portuguese citizenship in 1995. Since 1996ÊProfessor and Head of the Department of History of the Universidade Lusofona in Lisboa. Is fellow of the Portuguese Academy of History since 1983 and of the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa since 2000. More details of [his] CV may be consulted at http://bit.ly/6flQ9 and the ResearchID with important online publications at http://bit.ly/aBMS9z
Several of his important publications (particularly dispersed and hard to get research articles) during the past 3 and half decades may now be consulted at http://www.scribd.com/teodesouza and http://recil.grupolusofona.pt/items-by-author?author=Souza%2C+Teot%C3%B3nio+R.+de [not covered by this abstract - ed.] They cover the historical and cultural impact of the Portuguese colonial presence in Asia, and more particularly in India. - trs."

Site contents:
* Historical Explorations & Online Documents [The online apers include:]
# Marine Insurance in Indo-Portuguese Trade;

# Bocarro's Account of Goa-based Trade in the Early 17th Century;

# Hajj Without Spice: Akbar and the Portuguese;

# Rojnishi: Maratha history in Portuguese records of Lisbon;

# Embassies and Surrogates: Case-Study of a Malacca Embassy to Siam in 1595;

# Medieval Goa (2009);

# Vasco da Gama and the Later Portuguese Colonial Presence in India;

# Indo-Portuguese numismatics and the Goa Mint (1976);

# Diamond Mines of the Deccan (1996);

# The Portuguese in Goa;

# Goa Archives - Fourth Centenary;

# African Slavery in Goa;

# Hindus and Goan Colonial Economy;

# Between Empires - Review Article;

# Historical Archives.

URL: http://www.scribd.com/teodesouza

Internet Archive: (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]

Link reported by: Teotonio R. de Souza (teodesouza--at--netcabo.pt)

* Resource type: [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher: [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness: [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful
* External links to the resource: [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000
- under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 300

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