Includes bibliographical references and index.

Islam and Tibet : cultural interactions : an introduction / Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim -- Tibet in Islamic geography and cartography / Anna Akasoy -- The Bactrian background of the Barmakids / Kevin van Bladel -- Iran to Tibet / Asadullah Souren Melikian-Chirvani -- Greek and Islamic medicines : historical contact with Tibet / Dan Martin -- Tibetan musk and medieval Arab perfumery / Anya King -- Central Asian Buddhist sources of early scholasticism in medieval Tibet, Islam and Western Europe / Christopher Beckwith -- Notes on the religions in the Mongol empire / Peter Zieme -- Tibetans, Mongols and the fusion of Eurasian cultures / Paul Buell -- Rock-cut cave sites in Iran and their Ilkhanid Buddhist aspects reconsidered / Arezou Azad -- The Muslim queens of the Himalayas : princess exchanges in Baltistan and Ladakh / Georgios Halkias -- Portuguese missionaries and their first encounter with Muslims in Tibet / Marc Gaborieau -- So close to Samarkand, Lhasa : Sufi hagiographies, founder myths and sacred space in Tibetan Islam / Alexandre Papas -- Between legend and reality : about the conversion to Islam of two prominent Lamaists in the 17th-18th centuries / Thierry Zarcone -- Ritual theory across the Buddhist-Muslim divide in late imperial China / Johan Elverskog -- An early 19th-century Kashmiri Muslim trader in Tibet / John Bray -- Do all the Muslims of Tibet belong to the Hui nationality? / Diana Altner -- Greater Ladakh and the mobilization of tradition in the contemporary Baltistan movement / Jan Magnusson.