Étienne de la Vaissière


Étienne de La Vaissière is a French historian, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, in Paris. He is teaching economic and social history of early medieval Central Asia, before and after the arrival of Islam. He is a specialist of the Sogdian culture, its traders and nobility, and also of the nomadic invasions of the 4th-5th centuries.
Some of his theories are: