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The article reviews the Kitan Liao dynasty (907-1124) multi-faceted relations with the Islamic world, tracing diplomatic and commercial relations; migrations of Kitans to the Islamic lands and tracing how the Muslims saw "Cathay" as one aspect of the image of China and the East.
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The article illuminates a lesser known chapter in the cross cultural contacts between China and Central Asia in an understudies period in the history of the Silk Roads. Based on Chinese and Islamic sources of various genres as well as on archaeological literature it reconstruct and analyzed the actual connections (commercial, diplomatic, of migration) among the Liao dynasty (907-1124) and the contemporary Islamic states (Qarakhanids, Ghaznavids, Seljuqs, Abbasids) and the mutual perceptions of both sides.
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This page is a summary of: Unearthing the Liao Dynasty’s Relations with the Muslim World: Migrations, Diplomacy, Commerce, and Mutual Perceptions, Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, January 2013, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/sys.2013.0020.
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