Étienne de la Vaissière explained

Étienne de La Vaissière (born 5 November 1969 in Dijon) is a French historian, professor at the École 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 4th-5th centuries.Some of his theories are:

• a depiction of the network which gave to the image of "Silk Road" its only historical reality during the Early Middle Ages
• the textual proof that the Huns and the Xiongnu are indeed synonymous
• a shift of two centuries in the history of Eastern Manichaeism (it arrived in China in the 6th century)
• a reinterpretation of Abbasid 9th century political history pushing the birth of the mamluk phenomenon to the 860s-870s

He contributed to the expedition that led to the decipherement of the inscription of Hüis Tolgoi.

Books

• French: Histoire des marchands sogdiens, De Boccard, Paris, 2002
  • New edition corrected and expanded, 2004 ^[2]
  • English translation
• French: Samarcande et Samarra. Elites d'Asie centrale dans l'empire abbasside, Peeters, Louvain, 2007 ^[3]
• With Éric Trombert, French: Les Sogdiens en Chine, École française d’Extrême-Orient, Paris, 2005 ^[4]
• With Matteo Compareti, Royal Nawruz in Samarkand, supplement of the Italian: Rivista degli Studi Orientali, 2006
• With M. Ghose "Ephtalites", in Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 2007.http://www.bulletinasiainstitute.org/
• Islamisation de l'Asie centrale. Processus locaux d'acculturation du VIIe au XIe siècle, Peeters, Louvain, 2008.^[5]

Articles

• de La Vaissière . Étienne . Is There a "Nationality of the Hephtalites"? . Bulletin of the Asia Institute . 2003 . 17 . 119–132 . 24049310 . 0890-4464.
• de La Vaissière . Étienne . Huns et Xiongnu . Central Asiatic Journal . 2005 . 49 . 1 . 3–26 . 41928374 . 0008-9192.
• de La Vaissière . Étienne . Les Turcs, rois du monde à Samarcande . Rivista degli studi orientali . 2006 . 78 . 147–162 . 41913394 . 0392-4866.

External links

• Archeao.ens.fr

Notes and References

1. Web site: Etienne de la Vaissière - Chine - EPHE . Crcao.fr . 2011-01-30.
2. Web site: DE BOCCARD Edition Diffusion . Deboccard.com . 2011-01-30.
3. Web site: Samarcande et Samarra . Peeters-leuven.be . 2011-01-30.
4. Web site: Ecole Francaise de l'Extreme Orient . www.efeo.fr . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20050217234212/http://www.efeo.fr/publications/vdp.shtml . 2005-02-17.
5. Web site: Islamisation de l'Asie centrale . Peeters-leuven.be . 2011-01-30.