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Étienne de la Vaissière

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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.^[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 Abbasid 9th century political history pushing the birth of the mamluk phenomenon to the 860s-870s

Books[edit]

Histoire des marchands sogdiens, De Boccard, Paris, 2002
- New edition corrected and expanded, 2004 ^[3]
- English translation Sogdian traders : a history, Handbook of Uralic studies v.10, Leiden, 2005, ISBN 978-90-04-14252-7
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]

Articles[edit]

de La Vaissière, Étienne (2003). "Is There a "Nationality of the Hephtalites"?". Bulletin of the Asia Institute. 17: 119–132. ISSN 0890-4464. JSTOR 24049310.
de La Vaissière, Étienne (2005). "Huns et Xiongnu". Central Asiatic Journal. 49 (1): 3–26. ISSN 0008-9192. JSTOR 41928374.
de La Vaissière, Étienne (2006). "Les Turcs, rois du monde à Samarcande". Rivista degli studi orientali. 78: 147–162. ISSN 0392-4866. JSTOR 41913394.

References[edit]

^ "Etienne de la Vaissière - Chine - EPHE". Crcao.fr. Retrieved 2011-01-30.

^ Foret, Philippe (2008), The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road, BRILL, p. 168, ISBN 978-90-04-17165-7

^ "DE BOCCARD Edition Diffusion". Deboccard.com. Retrieved 2011-01-30.

^ "Samarcande et Samarra". Peeters-leuven.be. Retrieved 2011-01-30.

^ "Ecole Francaise de l'Extreme Orient". www.efeo.fr. Archived from the original on 2005-02-17.

^ "Islamisation de l'Asie centrale". Peeters-leuven.be. Retrieved 2011-01-30.

External links[edit]

Archeao.ens.fr

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