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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... London; Gurtnyyaz Hanmyradov, rector of Turkmenistan's National University; Deborah Klimburg-Salter of the Universität Wien; Azim Nanji of Stanford University; Morris Rossabi of Columbia University; Edvard Rtveladze of the Academy of ...
... London show argued in the New York Times, a “groundless myth” perpetrated by Western orientalists?35 What, if any, was the influence of other faiths, and what about the skeptics, freethinkers, agnostics, and atheists among the ...
... London, Classical Weimar, Nara in its golden age, or, for that matter, Concord, Massachusetts, in the era of Emerson, Thoreau, and the Alcotts? Underlying each of these specific instances of cultural greatness—and Central Asia's Age of ...
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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 |