Étienne de la Vaissière
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Étienne de La Vaissière (born 5 November 1969) is a French historian, professor at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, in Paris.[1] He is teaching economic and social history of early medieval Central Asia, before and after the arrival of Islam. He is a specialist of the Sogdian culture, its traders and nobility, and also of the nomadic invasions of the 4th-5th centuries. Some of his theories are:
- a depiction of the network which gave to the image of "Silk Road" its only historical reality during the Early Middle Ages[2]
- the textual proof that the Huns and the Xiongnu are indeed synonymous
- a shift of two centuries in the history of Eastern Manichaeism (it arrived in China in the 6th century)
- a reinterpretation of Abbassid 9th century political history pushing the birth of the mamluk phenomenon to the 860s-870s
Books
- Histoire des marchands sogdiens, De Boccard, Paris, 2002
- New edition corrected and expanded, 2004 [3]
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- Samarcande et Samarra. Elites d'Asie centrale dans l'empire abbasside, Peeters, Louvain, 2007 [4]
- With Éric Trombert, Les Sogdiens en Chine, École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2005 [5]
- With Matteo Compareti, Royal Nawruz in Samarkand, supplement of the Rivista degli Studi Orientali, 2006
- With M. Ghose "Ephtalites", in Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 2007.[1]
- Islamisation de l'Asie centrale. Processus locaux d'acculturation du VIIe au XIe siècle, Peeters, Louvain, 2008.[6]
References
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