Inner Asia

Preface to the First Edition, Preface to the Second Edition, How to use this Syllabus, Notes on transcription and pronunciation, General bibliography, CHAPTER 1 The definition of Central Eurasia, CHAPTER 2 The geographical setting of Central Eurasia, CHAPTER 3 The languages of Central Eurasia, CHAPTER 4 The scripts of Central Eurasia, CHAPTER 5 The present political framework, CHAPTER 6 Difficulties encountered in the use of written records, CHAPTER 7 Indigenous sources, CHAPTER 8 East Asian and Muslim sources, CHAPTER 9 Western sources, CHAPTER 10 The Scythians, CHAPTER 11 The Hsiung-nu, CHAPTER 12 The Juan-juan, CHAPTER 13 The Turks, CHAPTER 14 The Uighurs, CHAPTER 15 Central Eurasian art, CHAPTER 16 The Khitans and the Juchens, CHAPTER 17 The Huns, CHAPTER 18 The Avars, CHAPTER 19 The Volga-Don region, CHAPTER 20 Chingis khan, CHAPTER 21 The Mongols in East Asia, CHAPTER 22 The Mongols in the West, CHAPTER 23 The Golden Horde and the Il-khans, CHAPTER 24 The epigone Mongol khanates, CHAPTER 25 Timur, CHAPTER 26 The Timurids, CHAPTER 27 Russian penetration into Siberia, CHAPTER 28 The Oirats and the Kalmucks, CHAPTER 29 Russian penetration into Central Asia, CHAPTER 30 Buddhism in Inner Asia, CHAPTER 31 Christianity in Inner Asia, CHAPTER 32 Islam m Inner Asia, CHAPTER 33 Central Eurasian autochthonous religious beliefs, CHAPTER 34 The literatures of Central Eurasia, Index

Denis Sinor is former president of the American Oriental Societ and was active in various national and international scholarly societies in which he held positions of high international importance. He authored eight books and more than one hunderd sixty articles in Hungarian, French, English and German, and edited fourteen books. Many of these were translated into other languages, including Russian and Chinese. He served as editor of the Journal of Asian History from its inception in 1967 to his death, and also for the Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series (over 174 volumes) and the Indiana University Oriental Series.