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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... century residence at Sayod, Tajkistan 3. Papermaking in Khwarazm 4. Fresco from sixth-century Afrasiab, now Samarkand 5. Fragment of a mural from a house at Balalyk-Tepe, Tajikistan 6. Page from a fifteenth-century Egyptian copy of an ...
... century by Ahmad, eldest of the Banu Musa brothers, for recovering valuables from the seabed 147 6.1. Eleventh-century astrolabe from Central Asia 160 6.2. Distilling apparatus designed by Tus native Abu Musa Jabir ibn Hayyan (721–815) ...
... 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 Mahmud of Ghazni for his Indian subjects, in Arabic and Sanskrit ...
... century Samarkand-born poet and courtier of the rulers of Khwarazm and of Ghor, and author of Four Discourses, in which he argued that a good ruler's intellectual stable should include secretaries, poets, astrologers, and physicians ...
... century, he hid a collection of official documents in a large pot and buried them at Mount Mug. Rediscovered by a shepherd in 1933, the Mug documents enabled scholars to reconstruct details of Sogdian government and society. Abu Nasr ...
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 |