Buddhism & Islam on the Silk Road

"In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century bu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elverskog, Johan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , c2013
Series:Encounters with Asia
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Contact
  • 2. Understanding
  • 3. Idolatry
  • 4. Jihad
  • 5. Halal