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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... Early wood sculpture by a nomad artist 55 3.1. Sculpture of a Greek horseman 78 3.2. Virtual reconstruction of the classical Greek theater and palace area at Ai Khanoum, founded by Alexander the Great in 327 bc 79 3.3. Capital of a ...
... Early manuscript describing Tusi's research 462 13.4. Mausoleum (1334) in Kyrgyzstan's Talas Valley, hailed by tradition as the tomb of the Kyrgyz epic hero Manas, but more likely the tomb of a local khan's daughter 471 14.1. Ruins of ...
... early eighth century, he hid a collection of official documents in a large pot and buried them at Mount Mug ... earliest works on astronomy to be written in Arabic. In the West “Alfraganus,” as he was known, became the “Arab” astronomer ...
... early martyr of Shariabased traditionalism in Islam. HIWI al-Balkhi. Late ninth-century skeptic and polemicist from Khurasan who launched blistering assaults on the Old Testament but spared neither Christian nor Islamic holy writ from ...
... early and too late. It is too early because of the several bursts of cultural brilliance that occurred thereafter; and it is too late because the cultural and religious crisis that threw the entire enterprise ofrational enquiry, logic ...
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 |