ISBN10: 8120815963, ISBN13: 9788120815964, [publisher: Motilal] Hardcover 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. ...