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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... claimed control over the territory of Greater Central Asia. Some of these, like the early Kushans, Bactrians, and Khwarazmians, or the later dynasties of Ismail Ibn Ahmad Samani, Mahmud of Ghazni, and Tamerlane (Timur), were locally ...
... claimed a monopoly on the minting of gold coins, yet largely failed to get them into circulation in Central Asia. However, businessmen in Balkh and other cities in the region liked this innovation— metal coinage—and prevailed on their ...
... claimed de facto independence and began minting their own handsome gold coins. The armies of independent Greek Bactria successfully invaded India in 180 bc, which transformed their realm into a continental state, a GrecoIndian empire ...
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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 |