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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... existence of separate fields of knowledge, each with its own body of expertise, and that he, as a philosopher and medical expert, was not necessarily qualified to pass judgment on every field. No less important, he was demanding what ...
... existence in Central Asia of “a network of cities and their hinterlands”3 but do not acknowledge a broader identity that might set off those cities and their hinterlands from other settled zones further west. Meanwhile, during three and ...
... existence of elliptical orbits among planets circulating other suns in our galaxy has drastically shrunk the estimated number of such “exoplanets” that might be inhabitable. Biruni's teacher and close friend, Abu Nasr Mansur Iraq, was ...
... existence is known only from occasional mentions in the literature. Geology and the earth sciences also advanced strongly during these marvelous centuries, with Ibn Sina and Biruni being credited with the first theory of sediments, a ...
... existence of a deeply rooted and sophisticated urban way of life in Central Asia. In fact, the region's tradition of urbanism stretches back nearly five millenniums, when stock breeders began grouping together in large communities. By ...
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 |