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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... Ferdowsi's Shahnameh 9. Miniature Central Asian painting depicting a central moment of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh 10. Tenth-century Tomb of Ismail Samani at Bukhara 11. Contemporary miniature showing thinkers gathered at Gurganj in Khwarazm ...
... Ferdowsi. Working at a court in Azerbaijan, Asadiversified The Epic of Garshasp (Garshaspnameh), which ranks second only to Ferdowsi's Shahnameh among Persian epic poems. Farid al-Din ATTAR (1145–1221). Pharmacist and Sufi poet from ...
... Ferdowsi incorporated into his Shahnameh. At Daqiqi's death in 976, Ferdowsi took over the project. DEWASHTICH (r. 721–722). The last pre-Islamic ruler of Panjikent in present Tajikistan; fleeing before Arab armies in the early eighth ...
... Ferdowsi, and four hundred poets. Mahmud was at the same time the enemy of all heterodoxy in religion. Caliph Abu Jafar Abdullah MAMUN (786–833). Worked initially from his capital at Merv and then shifted to Baghdad, where he promoted ...
... Ferdowsi, author of Shahnameh. Birth of Afghan mathematician Abul-Wafa Buzjani. Birth of Abu Nasr Mansur Iraq, student of Buzjani, astronomer and mathematician. Construction of the mausoleum at Tim. Birth of Abu Ali al-Husayn Ibn Sina ...
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 |