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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... learning in Central Asia. NIZAM AL-MULK, or “Order of the Realm” (1018–1092). Honorific title of Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Ali, powerful Seljuk vizier from Tus who railed against the Ismailis in his Book of Government and championed Ghazali ...
... learning in what is now Uzbekistan. He was to make his mark in medicine, philosophy, physics, chemistry, astronomy, theology, clinical pharmacology, physiology, ethics, and music theory. When eventually Ibn Sina's magisterial Canon of ...
... learning in which they made their more noteworthy contributions. In doing so, however, two important caveats must be borne in mind. First, this was an age of polymaths, of individual thinkers who accumulated truly encyclopedic bodies of ...
... learning and scholarship.48 Women were certainly prominent behind the scenes in Central Asian politics. Thus when Arab armies arrived at the gates of Samarkand bearing their new religion and seeking plunder, they encountered a steel ...
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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 |