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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... called Khwarism, Khwarizm, or Khwarasm, after 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 ...
... called an “attempted genocide,” but who opened both China and Persia to new waves of intellectual influence from Central Asia. Omar KHAYYAM (1048–1131). Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, engineer, and poet from Nishapur whose ...
... called “the most comprehensive work on [weighing] in the Middle Ages, from any cultural area.” Abu Mahmud KHUJANDI (945–1000). A native of Khujand, Tajikistan, and designer of astronomical instruments who reached conclusions on Earth's ...
... called Shiite century (900–1000), epitomized by Fatimids in Egypt and Buyids in Iran. Birth of Abolqasem Ferdowsi, author of Shahnameh. Birth of Afghan mathematician Abul-Wafa Buzjani. Birth of Abu Nasr Mansur Iraq, student of Buzjani ...
... called the “paradigm”) slowly pile up. Breakthroughs occur when the accumulation of such discrepancies or “anomalies” leads to the development of a new theory or paradigm. Under the new paradigm, what had formerly been considered ...
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 |