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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... Greek horseman 78 3.2. Virtual reconstruction of the classical Greek theater and palace area at Ai Khanoum, founded by Alexander the Great in 327 bc 79 3.3. Capital of a Corinthian Greek column from the Bactrian x • Illustrations.
... Greek column from the Bactrian palace at Ai Khanoum, northern Afghanistan 80 3.4. Terracotta Buddha from Hadda, Afghanistan, rediscovered in the presidential palace in Kabul in 2004 83 3.5. Statue of Buddha being excavated at Sahri ...
... Greek state, headquartered at Balkh, which eventually ruled territories extending into India. Awhad al-Din ANVARI (1126–1189). Poet and boon companion of Sultan Sanjar at Merv who, boasting of his vast knowledge, wrote that, “If you don ...
... Greek and Sanskrit works into Arabic. Caliph Harun al-Rashid wiped them out in 803. Abolfazi BEYHAQI (995–1077). Independent-minded court historian at Ghazni, Afghanistan. Author of a thirty-volume study of the reigns of Mahmud and ...
... Greek Bactria invade India, the apogee of the Hellenistic Greek kingdom of Bactria in Central Asia. Approximate start of reign of Kushan ruler and champion of Buddhism, Kanishka I. Start of export of Chinese silk westward and eventual ...
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 |