Étienne De La Vaissière
Biographic Data
| ID | 371997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Étienne De La Vaissière |
| GIVEN NAMES | Étienne |
| FAMILY NAME | De La Vaissière |
| SIGNATURE | DE LA VAISSIÈRE É |
| AFFILIATIONS | École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4010-5232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Central Asian Conceptual Landscape: A Short Answer to Howard Masang, Duturaeva, and Paul
A Military Origin for New Persian
The question of the transition from Middle Persian to New Persian has been hotly debated. This article attempts to answer two questions: who spoke New Persian before it was put into writing in the middle of the 9th c.? This social group is identified with the soldiers of the armies of Abū Muslim, i.e. peasants from Marw and their descendants. They came during one century to the forefront of Abbasid political and administrative life and imposed th…
Asie centrale 300-850: Des routes et des royaumes
The Origin of the Name ‘Mongol’
This short note proposes that a hapax legomenon in a fifth century list of enemies of Khotan might give a half a millennium antecedent to the name of the Mongols, as an alternative, and older, name of the Mongol-speaking Rouran
The Turks and the other peoples of the Eurasian steppes to 1175
Examination of the art of war among the nomad peoples of the steppe could easily lead to archetypes. Indeed, the sustained similarities between the different descriptions that have survived, from the Xiongnu to the Mongols, are certainly very strong: the type of weapon, the tactic of the ‘Parthian shot’, the small horses, the decimal organisation of the army – over a long period these various elements have contributed to a unified pattern of noma…
Sogdian Ḏimmī. Religious and Political Protection in Early 8th Century Central Asia
This article aims to understand the processes by which the Sogdians were able to become ḏimmīs during the first half of the 8th century, on the basis of textual data, drawn from the accounts of the conquest, and archaeological data—the destruction of temples—and by proposing a parallel with the simultaneous conquest of Sind
Inherited Landscapes in Muslim Bactra
This article presents recent archaeological discoveries on the Buddhist monasteries, the irrigation system and defence systems of the oasis of Balkh, intending to explore the depth of the gap between these central features of the oasis landscape and the transmitted early Islamic texts describing the site. The Fażāʾil-i Balḫ and the Ḥudūd al-ʿĀlam do provide us with some data but the archaeology allows a detailed demonstration of how many parts of…
The ʿAbbāsid Revolution in Marw: New Data
New data from Chinese, Bactrian and archaeological sources on the oasis of Marw are introduced in the long debate on the Persian or Arab nature of the ʿAbbāsid movement. These data provide us with a rough estimate of the maximum feeding power of the oasis of Marw. This feeding power is then taken into account to demonstrate that the Arab soldiers and their families settled there should have consumed between one-third and two-thirds of the food pr…
Early Medieval Central Asian Population Estimates
Census data from 8th-century Eastern Central Asian oases, combined with the measurements of the oases and data from archives discovered there, allow us to calculate estimates both of the individual oases’ populations and of their respective feeding capacities, which is to say the number of people who could be fed from the output of one hectare of agricultural land. These numbers in turn have parallels in Western Central Asia, where oasis sizes ca…
The Steppe World and the Rise of the Huns
Trans-Asian trade, or the Silk Road deconstructed (antiquity, middle ages)
The Cambridge History of Capitalism: From Ancient Origins To 1848
The first volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of capitalism from its earliest beginnings. Starting with its distant origins in ancient Babylon, successive chapters trace progression up to the 'Promised Land' of capitalism in America. Adopting a wide geographical coverage and comparative perspective, the international team of authors discuss the contributions of Greek, Roman, and Asian ci…
Nouvelles recherches sur le paysage monumental de Bactres
Vaissière Étienne de la, Marquis Philippe. Nouvelles recherches sur le paysage monumental de Bactres. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 157e année, N. 3, 2013. pp. 1155-1171
Turks
The first mention of the Turks in any historical source goes back to 542, when they went pillaging in winter on the northern frontier of China. When working as ironworkers in the Altay, for their Rouran overlords, they overthrew them in 552.
Central Asia and the Silk Road
This article discusses the history of Central Asia in Late Antiquity. It covers the climatic, geographical, and cultural milieux; the Hunnic invasion, post-invasion economic shift, the Chinese and western sections of the Silk Road, and the end of Central Asian long-distance trade
Historiens arabes et manuscrits d’Asie centrale: Quelques recoupements
On donne deux exemples de renseignements tirés des sources narratives arabo-persanes sur l’histoire de la conquête de l’Asie centrale durant les années 710 et 720 et corroborés directement par les sources locales, archives sogdiennes ou textes chinois. L’Asie centrale de la première moitié du viiie siècle est remarquablement connue par des sources diverses et les textes arabo-persans s’intègrent sans difficulté ni contradiction majeures dans cet …
The Sogdians in the Islamic World
The Turco-Sogdian Milieux
Preliminary Material
Sogdiana, a Major Center of Trade
Ruptures and Assimilations
General Introduction
Trade with India
Ambassadors and Merchants: The Western Routes
Structures
Sogdian Traders: A History
The Sogdian Traders were the main go-between of Central Asia from the fifth to the eighth century. From their towns of Samarkand, Bukhara, or Tashkent, their diaspora is attested by texts, inscriptions or archaeology in all the major countries of Asia (India, China, Iran, Turkish Steppe, but also Byzantium). This survey for the first time brings together all the data on their trade, from the beginning, a small-scale trade in the first century BC …
Histoire des marchands sogdiens
Cette these porte sur l'histoire des principaux marchands internationaux d'asie centrale du haut moyenage, les marchands sogdiens. Ce travail fonde principalement sur l'etude des textes a beneficie de l'apport de l'archeologie sovietique sur la sogdiane (l'ouzbekistan et le tadjikistan actuels), et des decouvertes des archeologues chinois. Elle etablit l'existence d'un monopole sogdien sur le grand commerce terrestre entre l'asie centrale et la c…
Asie centrale 300-850: Des routes et des royaumes
Mani en Chine au VIe siècle
Early Medieval Central Asian Population Estimates
Census data from 8th-century Eastern Central Asian oases, combined with the measurements of the oases and data from archives discovered there, allow us to calculate estimates both of the individual oases’ populations and of their respective feeding capacities, which is to say the number of people who could be fed from the output of one hectare of agricultural land. These numbers in turn have parallels in Western Central Asia, where oasis sizes ca…
Central Asia and the Silk Road
This article discusses the history of Central Asia in Late Antiquity. It covers the climatic, geographical, and cultural milieux; the Hunnic invasion, post-invasion economic shift, the Chinese and western sections of the Silk Road, and the end of Central Asian long-distance trade
Les livres des Sogdiens
Histoire des marchands sogdiens
Cette these porte sur l'histoire des principaux marchands internationaux d'asie centrale du haut moyenage, les marchands sogdiens. Ce travail fonde principalement sur l'etude des textes a beneficie de l'apport de l'archeologie sovietique sur la sogdiane (l'ouzbekistan et le tadjikistan actuels), et des decouvertes des archeologues chinois. Elle etablit l'existence d'un monopole sogdien sur le grand commerce terrestre entre l'asie centrale et la c…
Beyond the Gorges of the Indus: Archaeology before Excavation
Des Chinois et des Hu. Migrations et intégration des Iraniens orientaux en milieu chinois durant le haut Moyen Âge
Durant le haut Moyen Âge, l'Asie centrale orientale et la Chine du Nord ont été le théâtre d'expériences sociales et de brassages culturels tout à fait particuliers engendrés par des phénomènes migratoires complexes affectant des populations iraniennes surtout sogdiennes, mais pas uniquement. De ces milieux mixtes, créoles, qui se développèrent au confluent des influences sogdiennes, chinoises et turques, et que les anciens Chinois nommaient Hu, …
The Sogdians in the Islamic World
The Turco-Sogdian Milieux
Preliminary Material
Sogdiana, a Major Center of Trade
Ruptures and Assimilations
General Introduction
Trade with India
Ambassadors and Merchants: The Western Routes
Structures
Geographical Index
Index of Sources
In China
Index of Names
The Origins of the Sogdian Network: An Attempt at Chronological Delimitation
Handbuch der Orientalistik: Abt 8: Central Asia
Index of Subjects
General Conclusion
About the Ancient Letters
Châkars d'Asie centrale
Les Sogdiens en Chine
Sogdian Traders: A History
The Sogdian Traders were the main go-between of Central Asia from the fifth to the eighth century. From their towns of Samarkand, Bukhara, or Tashkent, their diaspora is attested by texts, inscriptions or archaeology in all the major countries of Asia (India, China, Iran, Turkish Steppe, but also Byzantium). This survey for the first time brings together all the data on their trade, from the beginning, a small-scale trade in the first century BC …
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