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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... horseman 78 3.2. Virtual reconstruction of the classical Greek theater and palace area at Ai Khanoum, founded by Alexander the Great in 327 bc 79 3.3. Capital of a Corinthian Greek column from the Bactrian x • Illustrations.
... Capital of a Corinthian Greek column from the Bactrian palace at Ai Khanoum, northern Afghanistan 80 3.4. Terracotta Buddha from Hadda, Afghanistan, rediscovered in the presidential palace in Kabul in 2004 83 3.5. Statue of Buddha being ...
... capital at Ghazni, Afghanistan, as depicted in a mid-nineteenth-century steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne, possibly after a painting by Lt. James Rathway, Town and Citadel of Ghaznee, 1848 333 11.2. Dual-language coins issued by ...
... capital at Begram and other sites in Afghanistan. Mahmud al-KASHGARI. Eleventh-century author of A Compendium of the Turkic Dialects, a comprehensive guide to the Turkic languages and their oral literature. A masterful treasure of ...
... capital, Nishapur. TAMERLANE (TIMUR) (1336–1405). Turkic marauder who conquered territory from the Mediterranean to India, founded a century-long dynasty, and assembled artists and craftspeople at his capital at Samarkand. THEODORE ...
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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 |