Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "Inner Asian and Altaic Studies"
Now showing items 1-5 of 5
-
Islam in Translation: Muslim Reform and Transnational Networks in Modern China, 1908-1957
(2016-05-19)This dissertation investigates Chinese Muslim (Hui) intellectual currents from the late Qing dynasty to the early years of the Communist Republic, 1908–1957. By analyzing a vast number of Muslim reformist journals, Chinese ... -
Kingly Exchange: The Silk Road and the East Eurasian World in the Age of Fragmentation (850-1000)
(2017-05-13)This dissertation is a cultural history of travel on the Silk Road in East Eurasia in the ninth and tenth centuries from the vantage point of Dunhuang, an oasis town situated between China proper and Central Asia. Following ... -
The Old Khotanese Metanalysis
(2016-05-17)A range of present stems in Khotanese which historically ended in a consonant behave synchronically as vowel final stems. Forms like bvāre ‘they know’ or bvāne ‘may I know’ imply a synchronic stem bu-, but most scholars ... -
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
(2016-04-22)This dissertation is the first major study of a slave trade that captured up to one million slaves along the Russian and Iranian frontiers over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries alone. Slaves served as ... -
Topics on the History of Tibetan Astronomy With a Focus on Background Knowledge of Eclipse Calculations in the 18th Century
(2016-05-16)The eclipse calculations in Tibet feature religious implications. One religious issue is Buddhist chronology (bstan rtsis). With Kālacakra calculational bases, Tibetan Kālacakra astronomers have tried to synchronize with ...