Periodic Reporting for period 2 - GO.LOCAL (Going Local in the Perso-Islamic Lands: Afghan Geniza, Islamisation and Language in the pre-Mongol Islamic East)

Today, in the popular imagination, the vast and pivotal region that stretches from eastern Iran to Tibet, known to some as the Islamicate East, is notorious as the cradle of terrorism, violence, and war. And yet, the region witnessed a mixing of cultures since antiquity that...