Étienne de la Vaissière

Étienne de La Vaissière is a French historian, professor at the Ecole 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 IVth-Vth c. Some of his results 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 2 centuries in the history of Eastern Manichaeism (it arrived in China in the VI c.)
• a reinterpretation of Abbassid IXth c. political history pushing the birth of the mamluk phenomenon to the 860's-870's

Books

• 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 9789004142527, http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=10&pid=22150 
• 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]

References

1. ^ "Etienne de la Vaissière - Chine - EPHE". Crcao.fr. http://www.crcao.fr/home.php?VARteam=umr&VARid=15&fp=ok&fic=ok&de%20la%20Vaissi%C3%A8re,Etienne. Retrieved 2011-01-30. 
2. ^ Foret, Philippe (2008), The journey of maps and images on the Silk Road, BRILL, p. 168, ISBN 9789004171657 
3. ^ "DE BOCCARD Edition Diffusion". Deboccard.com. http://www.deboccard.com/anglais/Rub/cata.htm. Retrieved 2011-01-30. 
4. ^ "Samarcande et Samarra". Peeters-leuven.be. http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=8356. Retrieved 2011-01-30. 
5. ^ http://www.efeo.fr/publications/vdp.shtml
6. ^ "Islamisation de l'Asie centrale". Peeters-leuven.be. http://www.peeters-leuven.be/boekoverz.asp?nr=8676. Retrieved 2011-01-30. 

External links

• Archeao.ens.fr

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