Asie centrale 300-850. Des routes et des royaumes
Journal: Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques
Year: 2025

É. De la Vaissière’s outstanding, erudite study is divided into eighteen chapters that provide a comprehensive historical account of Central Asia from the 4th to the mid-9th century, with occasional forays into periods before 300 or beyond 850. Such forays are often necessary for periods in which there is insufficient documentation and reconstructions of what occurred must, perforce, be based on analogies drawn from earlier and later times (e.g. the Xiongnu realm, the Mongol Empire). The aut...