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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... the Stage to Conquer Baghdad 101 Chapter 5 East Wind over Baghdad 126 Chapter 6 Wandering Scholars 156 Chapter 7 Khurasan: Central Asia's Rising Star 194 Chapter 8 A Flowering of Central Asia: The Samanid Dynasty Contents.
... . Author from Tus in Khurasan (now Iran) who toiled for thirty years—happily under the patronage of the Samanids of Bukhara and unhappily under the patronage of Mahmud of Ghazni—to produce the Persian epic Dramatis Personae • xxiii.
... Khurasan, and author of The Incoherence of the Philosophers, which threw down the gauntlet to rationalism. After undergoing a nervous breakdown following the death of his chief patrons, he adopted Sufism and, in a series of brilliant ...
... Khurasan to Baghdad, where he led a humanist seminar and advocated a strict separation of science/humanities from religion. Abdallah ibn TAHIR. Mid-ninth-century Tahirid ruler of Khurasan and all Central Asia who advocated universal ...
... Khurasan, 809–813. Birth of Abu Hasan Ahmad Ibn al-Rawandi, a radical critic of Islam and other revealed religions. Tahir ibn Husayn, governor of Khurasan, asserts his independence by purging the caliph's name from coinage and Friday ...
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 |