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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... intellectual stable should include secretaries, poets, astrologers, and physicians. Abu Mansur Ali ASADI. Eleventh-century poet from Tus and follower of Ferdowsi. Working at a court in Azerbaijan, Asadiversified The Epic of Garshasp ...
... intellectual heirs were also from Central Asia. Razi was the first true experimentalist in medicine and the most learned medical practitioner before Ibn Sina. He was a thoroughgoing skeptic in religion. RUMI (ca. 1207–1273). Common name ...
... a backwater and valued mainly for its natural resources, not its intellectual achievements. We know of it because copies survived in manuscript and were published almost a millennium later. CHAPTER 1: The Center of the World.
... intellectual and philosophical free-for-all. Adding yet more yeast to the environment was a bevy of talented poets, musicians, and artists, who were creating immortal works at the same time and in the same places. No less than the ...
... intellectual traditions thriving side-by-side with Islamic thought down to the year 1000 and beyond. This allowed ample time for crossfertilization in every direction. There is no more vexing question regarding the flowering of intellectual ...
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 |