Silk Road Footprints: Transnational Transmission of Sacred Thoughts and Historical Legacy [Hardback] by Suvro Parui, Mohamad Zreik, Mukesh Shankar Bharti, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Abby Fryman, Faiza Mazhar, James D. Seymour, Iain Sinclair, Gökhan Tekir, David W. Kim

This book offers a valuable and vibrant collection of essays, written by an international board of specialised scholars, on the ‘silk road’: a complex historical reality, but also the topos and locus of ongoing imaginary frames of ancient and more recent projections on this legendary connection between East and West.

Lionel Obadia

University of Lyon, France

What sets this volume unique is its scrupulous attention to geo-cultural perspectives on the landscapes of the Silk Road and its consideration of the impact of counter-cultural religions. Contributors offer critical analyses of the transmission of religious philosophies from the perspectives of Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, neo-Confucianism, and Protestantism as well as considering contemporary routes like China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This volume sets a new course for Silk Road studies and is likely to have an enduring impact on the field.

Stephen D. Glazier

Yale University