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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... noted, especially Richard N. Frye and Richard W. Bulliet, whose research on Nishapur, Bukhara, and the broader region inspired a generation of historians. Such gifted linguists and translators as Robert Dankoff and Dick Davis have ...
... noted, lived seven hundred years after Khayyam. In optics, Ibn Sahl from what is now the border area between Turkmenistan and Iran wrote an important treatise on the use of curved mirrors to focus light. Building on the work of his ...
... . From earliest times it was understood that people of Persianate stock in Central Asia were different from Persian speakers in most of what is now Iran. Herodotus noted that the Persian empire of Darius The Center of the World • 17.
... noted that the Persian empire of Darius and Xerxes did not tax people it accepted as “Persian.” But Central Asians whose languages belonged to the Iranian language group were considered sufficiently different that the Persian state ...
... noted, were describing a city that had suffered an economic decline in the generation immediately before the Arab invasion and had then been ruthlessly sacked by the Arab armies.7 Yet even after this, visitors from the Middle East ...
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 |