Srednevekovyi Vostok - Vasil'ev Leonid Sergeevich

The review work of one of the largest domestic orientalists and religious experts Leonid Vasilyev is devoted to the medieval East. In a relatively small space of text is laid out - briefly, but capaciously - the history of the pre-Islamic Middle East and Sassanid Iran, the Arab Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire, states in India and the Mughal Empire, the early medieval China and the Chinese Confucian Empire, Korea and Japan, the countries of Indochina and the island world of Southeast Asia. Defining the facets of the Eastern Middle Ages of the first centuries AD and the middle of the 19th century and covering a giant territory, the author nevertheless managed to create a complete picture, connected together by mutual influences and various contacts of Asian peoples. At the same time there was a place to describe the peculiarities of their religion, culture, everyday life. In short, this book is for those who knew little about the history of the East, but would like to know about everything at once in an accessible and understandable statement.