Bangladesh:Southern Branch of the Silk Road

作     者：Belal Ehsan Baaquie Bertrand M Roehner Qing-hai Wang 

作者机构：International Center for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF) Lorong Universiti A 59100 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Belal Ehsan Baaquie has been trained as a Theoretical Physicist at Caltech (BS) and Cornell University (Ph.D.) specializing in quantum field theory. He has pioneered the application of quantum mathematics to economics and finance and has written three books and numerous research papers on the subject. He has also written books on science and physics for undergraduates. Over the years he has extended his research interests to social sciences including religion history and politics. Institute for Theoretical and High Energy Physics (LPTHE) University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC) Paris France Bertrand Marie Roehner was trained as a Theoretical Physicist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris). However in the wake of his PhD in 1982 he started to study economic and social phenomena from the perspective of physics a field which became an institutional part of physics in 1995 under the name of “econophysics”. Actually studying social effects as if they were natural phenomena had already been advocated and pioneered at the end of the 19th century by the founding fathers of sociology such as Emile Durkheim and Vilfredo Pareto. As in physics this approach aims at finding regularities by the way of comparative analysis. Physics Department National University of Singapore Singapore 117542 Singapore Qing-hai Wang graduated with a BS and a master’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China. He obtained his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis USA. He is a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum mechanics high energy physics and mathematical physics. He has broad interests in history and literature. 

出 版 物：《China and the World》 

年 卷 期：2018年第1卷第3期

主　　题：Ancient silk road Bangladesh ideas and goods connection to Middle East 

摘      要：Over the last few years, a number of archaeological discoveries have been made that have raised questions and opened up possibly new understanding of the ancient history of Bangladesh. The findings at Wari–Bateshwar point to the possibility of a city-based civilization in the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta dating back to 4,000 BC. Another new discovery, which is being actively studied, is the possible existence of a branch of the Silk Road going through Bangladesh. A theoretical framework is required to guide an investigation as well as to acquire and interpret data. This paper explores a framework based on the existence of a southern branch of the Silk Road going through Bangladesh; and then goes on to study the impact that the existence of this route could have had on the history of Bangladesh and, in particular, on the advent of Islam.