History of Civilizations of Central Asia (v. 4, Pt. 2)

Contents: Description of the project/M.S, Asimov. Introduction/C.E. Bosworth. I. The development of education: maktab, madrasa, science and pedagogy: 1. The Islamic lands and their culture/A.K. Mirbabaev. 2. The search for knowledge through translation: translations of Manichaean, Christian and Buddhist literature into Chinese, Turkic, Mongolian, Tibetan and other languages/P. Zieme. 3. Early Buddhism in Tibet and the educational role of the monasteries/Wang Furen. II. Religions and religious movements: Introduction/H.J. Klimkeit. 1. Religions in the Central Asian environment/R. Meserve. 2. Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity/H.-J. Klimkeit. 3. The advent of Islam: extent and impact/E.E. Karimov. 4. Non-Islamic mystic movements in Hindu society/C. Shackle. III. Works on hadith and its codification, on exegesis and on theology: 1. The contribution of eastern Iranian and Central Asian scholars to the compilation of hadiths/A. Paket-Chy. 2. Qur'anic exegesis/C. Gilliot. IV. Legal, political and historical sciences: 1. Legal and political sciences in the eastern Iranian world and Central Asia in the pre-Mongol period/C.E. Bosworth. 2. Arabic, Persian and Turkish historiography in the eastern Iranian world/C.E. Bosworth. 3. Arabic, Persian and Turkish historiography in Central Asia/R.N. Frye. 4. Historiography among the Mongols/Sh. Bira. V. Philosophy, logic and cosmology/M. Dinorshoev. VI. Mathematical sciences: 1. Introduction: the mathematicians and their heritage/Q. Mushtaq. 2. The mathematical sciences/J.L. Berggren. VII. Astronomy, astrology, observatories and calendars/A. Akhmedov. VIII. Geodesy, geology and mineralogy, geography and cartography, the silk route across Central Asia: 1. Geodesy, geology and mineralogy. Geography and cartography/S. Maqbul Admad. 2. The silk route across Central Asia/K. Baipakov. IX. Alchemy, chemistry, pharmacology and pharmaceutics: 1. Alchemy and chemistry in Islamic Central Asia/A. Abdurazakov.