... assemblages such as economic corridors are moving capital between increasingly distant nodes, in the process leaving places such as Afiyatabad behind. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Belt and Road Initiative China Pakistan Economic Corridor New Silk Road border markets border trade...

...Khodadad Rezakhani The Silk Road is commonly used as a convenient blanket term to describe the many trade routes and points of contact that criss-crossed Central Asia. The term is generally overused, to the point that everything in the history of the region is conceptualized within the confines...

... autonomously. Trade networks were mainly developed based on religious affiliation, and they created connections throughout Asia to control commodities such as silk and other precious goods. Through Sassanian protection (224–651 CE) of trade, their Byzantine rivals were unable to gain an economic foothold...

...Jenny Rose This article provides a nuanced look at an eastern Iranian people whose contribution to both the material and ideological culture of the “Silk Road” is just beginning to come to light. The centrality of Sogdian involvement in trade with both China and India is evidenced from recently...

... based on national origins. The the boom and bust of the Syrian silk industry. These Act “limited the annual number of entrants of each changes in the homeland, or what Donna Gabaccia admissible nationality to three per cent of the for- aptly calls “the other side” of an international econ- eign-born...

..., items of daily use for common people continued to be produced by local weavers (Mitra 1978, 211). 111. The development of the silk industry in Bengal, which not only coincided with the decline of the cotton industry but also developed in areas previously renowned for their cotton textiles...

... the important           2010 3, question of the fabled Silk Road, its geographic construction over time, and the historical No. -2010-022       30, x   lacuna that shrouds the middle of the road...

... of the Silk Road: cha” (“Tokharian B., Language of the Kutcha Jour- ture grammaticale des langues Dravidiennes (Gram- Overland Trade and Cultural Exchange from Antiq- nal Asiatique, 1913; and Lévi, “Les missions de Wang matical Structure of Dravidian Languages) (Paris: Li- uity to the Fifteenth Century...

... of Asia from Hong Kong to Dubai and spanning the newly reemerging inland “silk road” from China to Europe. In this new legal domain, the transnational corporate lawyers in places such as Dubai and Singapore do not necessarily speak of Emirati or Singaporean law, or even international law, but have spoken...

... al-Din al-Ramli” ; Burak, Second Formation of Islamic Law , chap. 5 . 5. Muradi, Silk al-durar , 1:131–32; 3:188 . On al-Muradi, see Barbir, “al-Muradi, Muhammad Khalil.” 6. On Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Sandarusi (d. 1763 or 1764), see Muradi, Silk al-durar , 4:113. A copy...

... . “ Globalizing the Intellectual History of the Idea of the ‘Muslim World.’ ” In Global Intellectual History , edited by Moyn Samuel Sartori Andrew , 159 – 86 . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . Beckwith Christopher . Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia...

... of Serendib “a horse worth ten thousand dinars and all its housings and trappings of gold set with jewels, and a book and five different kinds of suits of apparel and an hundred pieces of fine white linen cloths of Egypt and silks of Suez and Cufa and Alexandria and a crimson carpet and another of Tebaristan...

...-European in a non-European language. It was novel in scope and broad in its source base, using materials in Arabic, Chinese, English, Persian, and Urdu. 50 It constructed a narrative highlighting the same events that might be covered when the history of the “Silk Road” is discussed, studied, and taught...

..., that “almost everything that used to be wool or silk, relating either to the dress of the women or the furniture of our houses, was supplied by the India trade.” 39 In South Asia, port investors scrambled to enter inland networks of textile trade coastal environments that fed global commodity chains. 40...

...Figure 8a–b. Rana Bishara, Blindfolded History (2003–ongoing), fifty-five sheets of glass silk-screened with bitter chocolate: (a) general installation view, (b) close-up, overlapping view. Photo credit: Rana Bishara. ...

... in 1989-90 in response to the Muslims, mainly engaged in the Banarasi silk-saree damage done by kar sevaks to the Babri Mosque. weaving trade. Varanasi being the twin town of the This was a strange experience. Suddenly, overnight Indian freedom struggle-the other being Alla- the entire town...

... of     and subaltern produced, forming as such sepa- the south relied primarily on tobacco cultivation rate, antihegemonic, and complete narratives after tobacco had replaced silk as the primary 1936...

.... and Critical Study of Ali Akbar’s Khatay’namah with Reference to Chinese Sources) (Taipei, 1967); Aly Maza- 5. In this respect, it resembles later Persian accounts of héri, La route de la soie (The Silk Route) (Paris: Papyrus, modern Europe, about which see Mohamad Tavakoli- 1983); ‘Abu Talib Mir...

... , 1965 . Law Robin Schwarz Suzanne Strickrodt Silke , eds. Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade, and Slavery in Atlantic Africa . Rochester, NY : Boydell and Brewer , 2013 . Lloyd Peter . “ Craft Organization in Yoruba Town .” Africa: Journal of the International African...