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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... Culture under a Turkic Marauder: Mahmud's Ghazni 332 Chapter 12 Tremors under the Dome of Seljuk Rule 381 Chapter 13 The Mongol Century 436 Chapter 14 Tamerlane and His Successors 478 Chapter 15 Retrospective: The Sand and the Oyster ...
... culture seem rarely to have affected the high culture that is the subject of this study,41 although further investigation could well change this judgment. The one clear instance of popular values being the driver for an intellectual ...
... cultures that lay just beyond its southern, southwestern, and southeastern borders. Beyond doubt, some of the most ... culture flowed from East to West, that is, from Central Asia into the rest of the Islamic and Mediterranean worlds ...
... culture across Central Asia. Again, the agent was not nature but humankind, specifically, people's gradual mastery ... cultures—which Wittfogel called despotisms. The governments assumed full responsibility for the large and complex ...
... culture. high-Value Traders The second source of Central Asian wealth—long-distance trade and commerce—also depended on a combination of geographical realities and human initiative. A glance at the map reminds us of the utter uniqueness ...
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 |