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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... present their glass beakers for diagnosis 15. Mahmud of Kashgar's ethno-linguistic map of the Turkic peoples 16. Minaret from 1108–1109 in Jarkurgan, Uzbekistan, designed by architect Ali bin Muhammad of Sarakhs 17. A diminutive Mahmud ...
... present it has been natural for me to view both the Persian and the Turkish worlds as places inhabited by exceptionally interesting people, among whom are many good friends of mine. The number of scholars and experts who have plowed the ...
... present challenges for anyone wishing to render their proper names and specific terms into English. This is vastly complicated by the fact that many relevant names and terms have become known mainly through the works of scholars writing ...
... language into the mainstream of Mediterranean civilization and thought. A native of Balasagun in present-day Kyrgyzstan, he died near Kashgar in Xinjiang, China. BANU MUSA. The brothers Jafar, Ahmad, and Hasan ibn Musa Dramatis Personae.
... present Tajikistan; fleeing before Arab armies in the early eighth century, he hid a collection of official documents in a large pot and buried them at Mount Mug. Rediscovered by a shepherd in 1933, the Mug documents enabled scholars to ...
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 |