The Silk Road: Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran

Jonathan Tucker is a former associate director of the Indian and Southeast Asian department at Spink and Son and has operated a gallery in St James's, London, with his wife Antonia Tozer since 2000. He is also a consultant for Bonhams and is a recognised authority in the field of Indian and Southeast Asian art, particularly in sculpture. Tucker lived in Asia for eleven years and spent many years exploring the ancient trade routes between China and Europe, travelling the entire length of the Silk Road with the exception of Iraq. He is the author of The Silk Road: Art and History (Philip Wilson Publishers), The Silk Road: Asia, Afghanistan and Iran (I.B. Tauris), and The Troublesome Priest: Harold Davidson, Rector of Stiffkey.

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface
Note on the Translation of Poetry and Prose

Introduction: Merchants, Monks and Migrants : The Traffic of the Silk Road

1. The Old Road Through Afghanistan to India
2. Silk Road Sites in Southern Central Asia
3. The Coming of Islam to Central Asia
4. The Mongols
5. Tamerlune (Timur) and the Timurids
6. The Silk Road Sites Between Balkh and Nisa
7. The Route North from Merv to Khorzem
8. The Routes North from the Iron Gate Pass
9. The Routes to the North-West from Bukhura to Khorezm
10. Silk Road Sites Around Samarkand
11. The Silk Road Between Samarkand and China
12. Parthians and Sassanians
13. The Main East-West Silk Road Across Iran
14. The Ray-Tabriz Road
15. The Ray-Hamadan Road
16. The End of the Road: The Silk Road in Decline

Chronologies
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index