The history and culture of Iran and Central Asia : from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic period / edited by D.G. Tor, Minoru Inaba.

The Enduring Significance of the Iranian World in the First Millennium CE : Transformation and Continuity / D.G. Tor -- Iranian Central Asia in Late Antiquity -- Types of town planning in ancient Iranian cities: new considerations / Frantz Grenet -- The proto-Sogdian inscriptions of Kultobe: New fragments and new reconstructions / Nicholas Sims-Williams -- Xian Temples of the Sogdian Colonies in China / Etsuko Kageyama -- Three scenarios for the historical background of the Xi'an Sino-Pahlavi inscription : Post-Sasanian Zoroastrian traders? / Yutaka Yoshida -- From the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic -- The Arab Conquest and the Collapse of the Sogdian Civilization / Michael Shenkar -- Wukong's itinerary towards India: Central Asia in the mid-eighth century / Minoru Inaba -- Evolution of the habitat in Paykend / Rocco Rante -- Notes on Islamisation Narratives in the Faḍāʼil-i Balkh / Arezou Azad -- Transformation of the Pre-Islamic past -- The New Garden of the Amīr: Samanid Land-Development at the Borders of the Bukhara Oasis / Sören Stark -- Al-Tha.Aālibī's Iranian Past : Assimilation and Aesthetics / Louise Marlow -- Representations of the Pre-Islamic Past in Early Persian Court Poetry / Gabrielle van den Berg -- From Turkistan to Tibet: The Qarakhanids and the Tsongkha Tribal Confederation / Dilnoza Duturaeva.

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