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Shahi Publications Written by the Project Research Team* SHAHI PUBLICATIONS WRITTEN BY THE PROJECT RESEARCH TEAM* ALRAM, M. (1996) Alchon und Nezak. Zur Geschichte der Iranischen Hunnen in Mittelasien. Atti dei Convegni Lincei 127, 517–554. (1999) Indo-Parthian and Early Kushan Chronology: The Numismatic Evidence. In Coins, Art, and Chronology. Essays on the Pre-Islamic History of the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. M. Alram and D. Klimburg-Salter (eds.), Vienna, 19–48. (2008) Ein Schatzfund Hephthalitischer Drachmen aus Baktrien. Numismatische Zeitschrift 116, 253–268. (2013) Coins at Tepe Narenj: Identification, Datation and Commentary. In Tepe Narenj à Caboul, Ou, l’art Bouddhique à Caboul Au Temps Des Incursions Musulmanes: Chronologie, Bâtiments, Céramiques et Monnaies. Z. Paiman (ed.), Paris, 87–93. (2014) From the Sasanians to the Huns: New Numismatic Aspects from the Hindu Kush. The Numismatic Chronicle, 261–291. (2016) Das Antlitz des Fremden. Die Münzprägung der Hunnen und Westtürken in Zentralasien und Indien (Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Museums 17). Vienna. ALRAM, M. AND KLIMBURG-SALTER, D. (EDS.) (1999) Coins, Art, and Chronology. Essays on the Pre-Islamic History of the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. Vienna. ALRAM, M., KLIMBURG-SALTER, D., INABA, M., AND PFISTERER, M. (EDS.) (2010) Coins, Art and Chronology II. The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. Vienna. HARDY, A. (2019) Kashmiri Temples: A Typological and Aedicular Analysis. In Indology’s Pulse: Arts in Context (Essays Presented to Doris Meth Srinivasan in Admiration of Her Scholarly Research). G. Mevissen and V. Gupta (eds.), New Delhi. INABA, M. (2004) Nay Qal’a, Wujiristan and the Khalaj. In Buddhist Caves of Jaghuri and Qarabagh- e Ghazni, Afghanistan. G. Verardi and E. Paparatti, Rome, 105–108. (2005) The Identity of the Turkish Rulers to the South of the Hindukush from the 7th to the 9th Centuries A.D. Zinbun 38, 1–20. (2010) From Kesar the Kabulsah and Central Asia. In Coins, Art and Chronology II. The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. M. Alram, D. Klimburg- Salter, M. Inaba, M. Pfisterer (eds.), Vienna, 443–455. * Online resource of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project ‘Cultural Formation and Transformation: Shahi Art and Architecture from Afghanistan to the West Tibetan Frontier at the Dawn of the Islamic Era’ (P-31246) directed by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Deborah Klimburg-Salter in collaboration with National Research Partner HR Doz. Dr. Michael Alram. This resource includes references to publications written by member of the Shahi Project Team with direct relevance to the cultural history of the Shahi kingdoms. For a full list of publications by each scholar on this team, see references in the Bibliographic Database and on the individual profiles/homepages linked in the Project Team page. Updated 4 February 2021. (2010) Nezak in Chinese Sources. In Coins, Art and Chronology II. The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. M. Alram, D. Klimburg-Salter, M. Inaba, M. Pfisterer (eds.), Vienna, 191–202. (2013) Kābul in the Premodern Period : Historical Shifts of the Regional Center in Eastern Afghanistan. The Tôhô Gakuhô 88, 359–402 [in Japanese]. (2013) Pre- and Early Islamic History of the Regions across the Hindukush. Bulletin of the Society for Western and Southern Asiatic Studies 79, 1–27. (2013) Sedentary Rulers on the Move: The Travels of the Early Ghaznavid Sultans. In Turco-Mongol Rulers, Cities, and City Life. D. Durand-Guedy (ed.), Leiden, 75– 98. (2015) A Venture on the Frontier: Alptegin's Conquest of Ghazna and its Sequel. In Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World. A. C. S. Peacock and D. G. Tor (eds.), London, 108–128. (2015) From Caojuzha to Ghazna/Ghaznin: Early Medieval Chinese and Muslim Descriptions of Eastern Afghanistan. Journal of Asian History 49, 97–117. (2016) Ghaznavids. In The Encyclopaedia of Islam. The Third Edition, 2016-3. K. Fleet et al. (eds.), Leiden, 95–105. (2017) Across the Hindukush of the 'Abbasid Period. In The 'Abbasid and Carolingian Empires: Comparative Studies in Civilizational Formation. D. G. Tor (ed.), Leiden, 123–150. (2017) Between Zābulistān and Gūzgān: A Study of the Early Islamic History of Afghanistan. Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology 7, 209–225. (2019) The Narratives on the Bāmiyān Buddhist Remains in the Islamic Period. In Encountering Buddhism and Islam in Premodern Central and South Asia. I. Strauch and B. Auer (eds.), Berlin/Boston, 75–96. KIMMET, N. (Forthcoming) Afghanistan: II. Historical Survey. 1. Before c. AD 900. (ii) Sculpture. (d) c. 4th - c. 9th century AD (updated entry). In Grove Art/Oxford Art Online. (Forthcoming) Afghanistan: II. Historical Survey. 1. Before c. AD 900. (iii) Painting (updated entry). In Grove Art/Oxford Art Online. KLIMBURG-SALTER, D. (1982) The Silk Route and the Diamond Path: Esoteric Buddhist Art on the Trans- Himalayan Trade Routes. Los Angeles. (1987) Dukhtar-i Nushirvan: An Ideology of Kingship. In Kusumanjali: New Interpretations of Indian Art and Culture (Sh. C. Sivavaramurti commemorative volume), Vol. 1. N. Rao (ed.), New Delhi, 61–75. (1989) The Kingdom of Bāmiyān: The Buddhist Art and Culture of the Hindu Kush. Naples/Rome. (1990) The Gilgit Manuscript Covers and the ‘Cult of the Book.’ In South Asian Archaeology 1987. M. Taddei and P. Callieri (eds.), Naples, 305–312. (1991) Notes on Two Gilgit Manuscript Cover Paintings. In The Art of Ajanta: New Perspectives. Papers Presented at the International Seminar held at M. S. University of Baroda, February 1-4, 1988. R. Parimoo (ed.), New Delhi, 521–536. 2 (1992) The Painted Covers of the Sāṃghātasūtra 627/8 and the Votive Objects from Gilgit. In South Asian Archaeology 1989. C. Jarrige, J. P. Gerry and H. Meadow (eds.), 395–402. (1993) Dokhtar-i-Noshirwan (Nigār) Reconsidered. In Muqarnas. An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 10, 355–368. (2002) The Meaning and Function of Bāmiyān in the 7th-8th Centuries. In Bāmiyān: Challenge to World Heritage. K. Warikoo (ed.), New Delhi, 33–39. (2005) Mahākāśyapa in the art of Bāmiyān. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archeologists, Paris 2-6 July 2001. Vol. II. C. Jarrige and V. Lefèvre (eds.), 535–549. (2008) Buddhist Painting in the Hindu Kush c. VIIth to Xth centuries: Reflections of the co- existence of pre-Islamic and Islamic artistic cultures during the early centuries of the Islamic era. In Islamisation de l'Asie centrale. Processus locaux d'acculturation du VIIe au XIe siècle (Cahiers de Studia Iranica, 39). É. de la Vaissière (ed.), Paris, 131–159. (2010) A Case Study in Cultural Mobility: The Crowned Buddha of the Kabul Shah. In Coins, Art and Chronology II. The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. M. Alram, D. Klimburg-Salter, M. Inaba, M. Pfisterer (eds.), Vienna, 389–406. (2010) Corridors of Communication across Afghanistan. In Paysage naturel et culturel du centre de l'Afghanistan. A. Marigo (ed.), Paris, 173–192. (2015[2016]) Along the Pilgrimage Routes between Uḍḍiyāṇa and Tibet: The Gilgit mss. covers and the Tibetan decorated book cover. In Tibet in Dialogue with its Neighbours. E. Forte, L. Junyan, D. Klimburg-Salter, Z. Yuan, H. Tauscher (eds.), Vienna/Beijing, 392–406. (2018) Contextualizing Mes Aynak. Afghanistan 1(2), 213–238. (2019) Buddhist Pilgrimage to India: Bamiyan, Kapisa–Kabul, Mes Aynak. In Inner and Central Asian Art and Archaeology. Vol. 1. J. Lerner (ed.). Turnhout, 185–224. (2020) The Materiality of the Bāmiyān Colossi, across Three Millennia. In Archaeologies of the Written: Indian, Tibetan, and Buddhist Stories in Honour of Cristina Scherrer-Schaub. V. Tournier, V. Eltschinger, and M. Sernesi (eds.), Naples, 373– 416. (2020) Entangled Narrative Biographies of the Colossal Sculptures of Bāmiyān: Heroes of the Mythic History of the Conversion to Islam. In The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues. M. Nagaoka (ed.), Paris/Kabul/Cham, 215–237. KUIJP, L. W. J. VAN DER (2018) The Bird-faced Monk and the Beginnings of the New Tantric Tradition: Part One. In Tibetan Genealogies: Studies in Memoriam of Guge Tsering Gyalpo (1961- 2015). G. Hazod and S. Weirong (eds.), Beijing, 403–450. (2018) The Bird-faced Monk and the Beginnings of the New Tantric Tradition, Part Two. Journal of Tibetology 19, 86–127 OLIVIERI, L. M. (2009) Archaeology in Swat: Activities and Challenges of the Italian Mission, 2000-2010. Ancient Pakistan 20, 97–102. 3 (2010) Late Historic Cultural Landscape in Swat. New Data for a Tentative Historical Reassessment. In Coins, Art and Chronology II. The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands. M. Alram, D. Klimburg-Salter, M. Inaba, M. Pfisterer (eds.), Vienna, 357–369. (2011) Behind the Buddhist Communities: Subalternity and Dominancy in Ancient Swat. Journal of Asian Civilizations 34, 123–151. (2012) When and Why the Ancient Town of Barikot was Abandoned? A Preliminary Note based on the Last Archaeological Data. Pakistan Heritage 4, 109–120. (2015) The Last Phases at Barikot: Urban Cults and Preliminary Chronology—Data from the 2012 Excavation Campaign in Swat. Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology 6/2011, 7–40. (2015) Urban Defenses at Bīr-Koṭ-Ghwaṇḍai, Swat (Pakistan): New Data from the 2014 Excavation Campaign. Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 21, 183–199. (2016) Guru Padmasambhava in Context: Archaeological and Historical Evidence from Swat/Uddiyana (c. 8th century CE). Journal of Bhutan Studies 34, 20–42. OLIVIERI, L. M., AFRIDI, A., MARTORE, F. AND LOLIVA, E. (2014) The Last Phase of the Urban Site of Bir-Kot-Ghwandai (Barikot). The Buddhist Sites of Gumbat and Amluk-Dara (Barikot) (ACT Series 2). Lahore. OLIVIERI, L. M. AND ALAM, H. (2011) A Recent Acquisition of the Lahore Museum: Brief Note on a Post-Gandharan Buddhist Stele. Lahore Museum Bulletin 20-27, 35–40. OLIVIERI, L. M.
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