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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... philosopher from Tus in what is now Iranian Khurasan, and author of The Incoherence of the Philosophers, which threw down the gauntlet to rationalism. After undergoing a nervous breakdown following the death of his chief patrons, he ...
... philosophical poetry of unsurpassed beauty. Abu Abdallah Muhammad al-KHWARAZMI (780–850). From Khwarazm; worked in ... philosophy and carried out an unsuccessful inquisition against Muslim traditionalists. MANAS. Legendary or, to some ...
... philosophy. RABIA Balkhi. A tenth-century poetess and friend of Rudaki from Balkh, now Afghanistan, whose brother killed her on learning of her love for a Turkic slave. Abu Hasan Ahmad Ibn al-RAWANDI (820–911). Prolific thinker from ...
... philosophy. Nearly all his questions still resonate strongly today. This opened a round of verbal jousting that, through at least four long messages on each side, reads like a scholarly feud waged today on the Internet. Are there other ...
... philosophy, physics, chemistry, astronomy, theology, clinical pharmacology, physiology, ethics, and music theory ... philosopher and medical expert, was not necessarily qualified to pass judgment on every field. No less important, he was ...
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 |