Minoru Inaba is a historian specialized in the Pre-Modern history of present-day Afghanistan. He is a professor at the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, where he has been working for more than thirty years.
His research interests inclueds; the movements of people, objects, and information across the historical frontiers such as the mountains of Afghanistan; the historical geography of the area across the Hindukush mountains; and the aspects of cultural interaction between Central, West, and South Asia. In these two decades, the history of the Kabulshah kingdom in eastern Afghanistan and northwest India has been one of his main focuses.
He acquired his Ph.D. from Kyoto University on the trans-frontier history of Afghanistan from the 6th to the 12th century.
He is a co-editor of Coins, Art and Chronology II: The First Millennium C.E. in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands (Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2010); The History and Culture of Iran and Central Asia: from the Pre-Islamic to the Islamic Period (University of Notre Dam Press, 2021). He also published many books and book chapters in Japanese.
