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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... Medieval European print depicting the alternative treatments for spinal disorders detailed by Ibn Sina in his Canon of Medicine 286 9.3. Eighteenth-century engraving by the German Georg Paul Busch depicting Avicenna (Ibn Sina) as a ...
... medieval Arabic and Persian and reconstructing the outlines of a lost history. His research remains today the gold standard for the region. After his death in 1930 his students not only carried on his work but extended it into new areas ...
... markings have been deleted for Central Asian names. Those readers who long for them are free to add them by hand, as a medieval copyist might have done. Dramatis Personae • Note: all dates are approximate. ALEXANDER THE Preface • xix.
... medieval Christianity. This bothered one of the two young scientists but not the other, so the first—Ibn Sina—hastened to add an intricate corrective that would be more theologically acceptable. But at bottom both anticipated ...
... Medieval Central Asians produced more than a few genuine breakthroughs of their own. But in looking for achievements by these scientists and scholars, we should be equally attuned to this science-making process, at which they were ...
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 |