Conférence de Khodadad Rezakhani : Finding the East

Conférence de Khodadad Rezkhani (Académie Autrichienne des Sciences - OAW (Vienne, Autriche))

dans le cadre du cycle de conférences “The Orient’s East. Iran and Eurasia in the First Millennium CE”

Following the Sasanian and Roman conceptions of the East and the first glimpses to its reality, the fourth session tries to pinpoint this “East” through the documentary and numismatic evidence left by the peoples who lived within it: people who wrote in Bactrian and Sogdian. Through letters, documents, and coins, the economy and the history of these peoples will emerge, from the Kushans to the wide Sogdian merchant network. Furthermore, the understanding of the past of this region by its future inhabitants will be analysed: the development of the idea of the region of Khurasan in the Islamic period, through Arabic-writing scholars such as Ibn Khurradadbih.

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