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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... Turks Take the Stage: Mahmud of Kashgar and Yusuf of Balasagun 303 Chapter 11 Culture under a Turkic Marauder: Mahmud's Ghazni 332 Chapter 12 Tremors under the Dome of Seljuk Rule 381 Chapter 13 The Mongol Century 436 Chapter 14 ...
... Turkish worlds as places inhabited by exceptionally interesting people, among whom are many good friends of mine. The number of scholars and experts who have plowed the separate furrows of this book is staggering. It is fashionable in ...
... Turks and captures Sultan Bayazit. Birth of astronomer Ali Qushji at Samarkand. Birth of the Persian poet Nuradin Jami. Ulughbeg founds his madrasa in Samarkand. Filippo Brunelleschi completes the Basilica of Santa Maria del Fiore in ...
... Turks? A millennium ago neither Iran nor Turkey existed as a state. Peoples who spoke the diverse languages and dialects belonging to the Iranian and Turkic families of languages were spread over a vast territory that extended far to ...
... Turkish coastline, and ten times the total area of ancient Troy.3 And the citadel comprises less than a tenth of Balkh's total area! Everything about Balkh exuded the immense wealth amassed from a booming agricultural sector based on ...
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 |