Étienne de la Vaissière
Étienne de La Vaissière (born 5 November 1969 in Dijon) is a French historian, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, in Paris. 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 *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 Abbasid 9th century political history pushing the birth of the mamluk phenomenon to the 860s-870s Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: 2005.
Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies = Handbuck der Orientalistik. Section Eight, Central Asia, Volume 10
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Published: 2007
Superior document: Studia Iranica : Cahier 35
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Published: 2008
Superior document: Studia Iranica : Cahier 39
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