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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... West as Tamerlane, as depicted by later court painter Kamoliddin Bihzad (1450–1537) from Herat, Afghanistan 25. Timur covered the entire outer and inner walls of his buildings with brightly colored tiles, a practice that soon spread ...
... Western and Russian scholars of the past two centuries for their “orientalism.” But without their painstaking ... West, while the Czech Republic claims the great literary scholar Jan Ripka. Across the English Channel, adventurers ...
... West as Alfarabius and revered in the East as “The Second Teacher,” after Aristotle. A great expounder of logic, Farabi set out the foundations of every sphere of knowledge. Ahmad al-FARGHANI (ca. 797–860). An astronomer who hailed from ...
... West and became its Bible: a dozen editions were printed before 1500. Indians used Ibn Sina's Canon to develop a whole school of medicine that continues today. Many regard Biruni and Ibn Sina together as the greatest scientific minds ...
... west. Meanwhile, during three and a half generations of Soviet rule we became accustomed to think of the region as a Middle (Srednaia) Asia that included only Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, that is ...
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 |