Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to TamerlanePrinceton University Press, 6 oct. 2013 - 680 pages The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacy |
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... into the mainstream of Mediterranean civilization and thought. A native of Balasagun in present-day Kyrgyzstan, he died near Kashgar in Xinjiang, China. BANU MUSA. The brothers Jafar, Ahmad, and Hasan ibn Musa Dramatis Personae.
... civilization of Iranic peoples, the Shahnameh, set a world standard for other national epics, was a native of Khorasan, and most of his epic was set in Central Asia, not the lands that now constitute the state of Iran. Nearly all the ...
... civilization in both the East and the West. Rather than allow such queries to proliferate indefinitely, and thereby lose the connecting thread in a welter of details, it is useful to reduce them to three. This turns out to be quite ...
... civilizations, and the balance between them, is important to our inquiry, for it goes far toward defining the special character of Central Asian life and thought. But its dimensions are so huge that it can only be dealt with ...
... civilizations of the Harappa in the Indus Valley and the Sumerians in Mesopotamia. Indeed, the archaeologist Victor Sarianidi from Figure 2.2. This reconstruction of Gonurdepe on the Merv oasis Worldly Urbanists, Ancient Land • 33.
Table des matières
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How Arabs Conquered Central Asia and Central Asia Then Set the Stage to Conquer Baghdad | 101 |
East Wind over Baghdad | 126 |
Wandering Scholars | 156 |
Khurasan Central Asias Rising Star | 194 |
A Flowering of Central Asia The Samanid Dynasty | 225 |
Turks Take the Stage Mahmud of Kashgar and Yusuf of Balasagun | 303 |
Culture under a Turkic Marauder Mahmuds Ghazni | 332 |
Tremors under the Dome of Seljuk Rule | 381 |
The Mongol Century | 436 |
Tamerlane and His Successors | 478 |
Retrospective The Sand and the Oyster | 515 |
Notes | 541 |
Index | 611 |