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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... 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 throughout the Muslim world 26. Sprawling ...
... court in Azerbaijan, Asadiversified The Epic of Garshasp (Garshaspnameh), which ranks second only to Ferdowsi's Shahnameh among Persian epic poems. Farid al-Din ATTAR (1145–1221). Pharmacist and Sufi poet from Nishapur, who combined ...
... court of the Khwarazmshahs in Gurganj (now Turkmenistan) and then at the court of Mahmud of Ghazni in Afghanistan. His works on astronomy, geodesy, history, and the social sciences established him as arguably the greatest scientific ...
... court of Mahmud of Ghazni and the author of lucid but complex poems built around the symbolic image of the garden. His verse on the death of Mahmud is one of the finest elegies in Persian. Abolqasem FERDOWSI (ca. 934–1020). Author from ...
... court at Ghazni, Afghanistan. YAKUB ibn Laith, “The Coppersmith” (840–879). Founder of a shortlived dynasty from Sistan on the border of Iran and Afghanistan that frontally challenged the hegemony of Arab rule and the Arabic language in ...
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 |