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Xinyatuoluo: Envoy of Dashi or Wuxun, or Muscat or Sohar or…

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Title: Xinyatuoluo: Envoy of Dashi or Wuxun, or Muscat or Sohar or…
Authors: Kurz, Johannes
Publisher Information: Fachinformationsdienst (FID) Asien, 2025.
Publication Year: 2025
Subject Terms: China, Geschichtsschreibung, Gesandtschaftswesen, Songdynastie <960-1279>, Chinese history-writing
Description: This brief essay has at its core a survey of the possible geographic origins of Xinyatuoluo, an indvidual said to have come to China in the eleventh century from Arabia. It concludes that the Arab connection made by scholars cannot be maintained upon examination of the Chinese source material.
Document Type: Article
Language: English
DOI: 10.48796/20250221-000
Accession Number: edsair.doi...........a2c5541831552667923945905115f79a
Database: OpenAIRE
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DOI:10.48796/20250221-000