Search Results for “mair”

• KHOTAN i. Geography

  Alain Cariou

  Located between the Kunlun mountains and the edge of the Taklamakan desert, the city of Khotan is today a major administrative center of the Khotan Prefecture, a vast area mostly concentrated in the piedmont oasis.

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• SHAMI STATUE

  Trudy S. Kawami

  from Šāmi, Khuzestan, the only intact monumental cast bronze of the Parthian period.

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• DĀSTĀN-SARĀʾĪ

  William Hanaway

  (storytelling), term used for written and oral genres of fictional narrative.

• CHINESE TURKESTAN ii. In Pre-Islamic Times

  Victor Mair and Prods Oktor Skjærvø

  In antiquity the Tarim and Dzungar (Zungar, Jungar) basins lay at the crossroads of three main Eurasian routes including the Southern Silk Road, the Northern Silk Road, and a northern route passing between the Bogdo-ola (Bo-ko-tuo) range and the Tien Shans.

• KUSHAN DYNASTY i. Dynastic History

  A. D. H. Bivar

  During the first to mid-third centuries CE, the empire of the Kushans (Mid. Pers. Kušān-šahr) represented a major world power in Central Asia and northern India.

• RHYTON

  Ulf Jaeger

  translated as “drinking horn,” its upper end can be filled with liquid and the lower end has a spout for pouring liquid out.

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• MUSIC HISTORY i. Pre-Islamic Iran

  Bo Lawergren

  The documentation is largely archeological with a sprinkling of textual sources, and some evidence is here assembled to outline Iran’s pre-Islamic music history.

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• HOMMAIRE de HELL, IGNACE XAVIER MORAND

  Jacqueline Calmard-Compas

  French engineer, geographer, traveler (1812-1848). He carried out pioneering scientific research in the Ottoman empire, southern Russia, and Persia