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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... Persian scholarship also thrives in emigration, where it has given rise to such valuable productions as the New York-based Encyclopedia Iranica, not to mention distinguished luminaries like Seyyed Hossein Nasr of George Washington ...
... Persian usage, or Khorezm, as transliterated from Russian? Any of the first three will be useful when scouring the indexes of books by Persianists, while Khorezm must be used for Russian indexes. Since sources in regional languages or ...
... Persian epic poems. Farid al-Din ATTAR (1145–1221). Pharmacist and Sufi poet from Nishapur, who combined mysticism with the magic of the storyteller's art. His Conference of the Birds is an allegory in which the birds of the world take ...
... Persian epics that Ferdowsi incorporated into his Shahnameh. At Daqiqi's death in 976, Ferdowsi took over the project. DEWASHTICH (r. 721–722). The last pre-Islamic ruler of Panjikent in present Tajikistan; fleeing before Arab armies in ...
... Persian epic Shahnameh. Combining legend with historical fact and spanning fifty reigns, his epic was a ringing affirmation of Persian values after the Arab conquest. Abu Hamid Muhammad al-GHAZALI (1058–1111). Theologian and philosopher ...
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 |