Along The Musk Routes: Exchanges Between Tibet and The Islamic World

• Published in: Asian medicine (Leiden, Netherlands) no. 2; pp. 217 - 240
• Main Authors: Akasoy, Anna, Yoeli-Tlalim, Ronit
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands BRILL 01.10.2018

From as early as the ninth century onwards, Arabic literature praises the quality of a typical and highly desirable product of Tibet, musk. In Arabic and Persian as well as Tibetan and Hebrew texts musk is discussed in a variety of genres such as geographical, zoological, religious and medical liter...