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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... Muhammad, recorded in the tenth century by the scholar Abu Isa Muhammad Tirmidhi (824–892) from Tirmidh (Termez), and inscribed at the entrance to the madrasa of Ulughbeg, ruler and astronomer, Samarkand, ca 1420 • Wisdom is the ...
... Muhammad preaching 14. Illustration from Ibn Sina's Canon depicting patients lining up to present their glass beakers for diagnosis 15. Mahmud of Kashgar's ethno-linguistic map of the Turkic peoples 16. Minaret from 1108–1109 in ...
... Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi (865–925), the first true medical experimentalist, examining a urine sample 182 7.1. Large glazed ceramic bowl from Nishapur 200 8.1. Gold dinars of the Samanid culture 232 8.2. Samani-era mausoleum in Tim ...
... Muhammad ibn Musa, but for several hundred years scholars have chosen to refer to him by his nisba, hence “Khwarazmi”; I have followed their practice. Latin versions of names are cited but not widely used in the text. When referring to ...
... Muhammad al-BUKHARI (810–870). Bukhara-born compiler and editor of An Abridged Collection of Authentic Hadiths with Connected Chains [of Transmission] Regarding Matters Pertaining to the Prophet, His Practices, and His Times, the most ...
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 |