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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... Khwarazm 4. Fresco from sixth-century Afrasiab, now Samarkand 5. Fragment of a mural from a house at Balalyk-Tepe, Tajikistan 6. Page from a fifteenth-century Egyptian copy of an astrological treatise by Abu Mashar of Balkh 7. Painting ...
... Khwarazm. And should we refer to the Prophet's grandson as Hosain, Hossein, Husain, Husayin, Husein, Huseyin, Hussain, Hussayin, Huseyn, Hussein, Husseyin, or Husseyn? In this and other cases, I have sought to use whatever version is ...
... Khwarazm and of Ghor, and author of Four Discourses, in which he argued that a good ruler's intellectual stable should include secretaries, poets, astrologers, and physicians. Abu Mansur Ali ASADI. Eleventh-century poet from Tus and ...
... Khwarazm who flourished first at the court of the Khwarazmshahs in Gurganj (now Turkmenistan) and then at the court of Mahmud of Ghazni in Afghanistan. His works on astronomy, geodesy, history, and the social sciences established him as ...
... and Christian Europe was equally powerful owing to his intricate affirmation of both reason and faith. Ghazali frontally challenged his legacy in theology. Abu Nasr Mansur IRAQ (960–1036). A prince of the Khwarazm xxiv • Dramatis Personae.
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 |