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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... developed a strong base in language and linguistic studies and have been among the world leaders in the extent and depth of their recent research on Buddhism in Central Asia. Russian research did not begin with Vasilii Bartold (Wilhelm ...
... develop a whole school of medicine that continues today. Many regard Biruni and Ibn Sina together as the greatest scientific minds between antiquity and the Renaissance, if not the modern age. In due course it will be necessary to ...
... developed tables for constructing horizontal sundials that were precisely adjusted to latitude.7 He also devised an instrument that used sine quadrants to derive numerical solutions to problems of spherical astronomy. Biruni's ...
... developed an instrument that applied spherical trigonometry to astronomical problems. Farghani, from the Ferghana Valley in present-day Uzbekistan, wrote a treatise on the main astronomical instrument of the Middle Ages, the astrolabe ...
... develop their distinctive spatial planning and architectural styles. Who paid the intellectuals of medieval Central Asia to sit and think deep thoughts? Biruni believed that kings should do this, “for they alone [can] free the minds of ...
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 |