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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... known about in the first place. In many cases their keen-eyed reading of the manuscript led to the correction of errors of fact and interpretation. Many others doubtless remain, but these are solely my responsibility as author, not ...
... known mainly through the works of scholars writing in English, French, German, or Russian, who have standardized them in accordance with the particular rules of their own languages, in the process often distorting the originals. Thus ...
... not widely used in the text. When referring to figures who are well-known around the world, I have followed common English usage, hence Ibn Sina and not Ibn Sino. Whole books can be, and have been, written about the xviii • Preface.
... known as the “Sons of Musa” (Banu Musa). In ninth-century Baghdad they dominated the scientific scene under Caliph Mamun and his successors. Besides their work in geometry and astronomy, Ahmad wrote a pioneering work in practical ...
... known in the West as Alfarabius and revered in the East as “The Second Teacher,” after Aristotle. A great expounder of logic, Farabi set out the foundations of every sphere of knowledge. Ahmad al-FARGHANI (ca. 797–860). An astronomer ...
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 |