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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... remained of Mahmud's Ghazni 322 11.1. Ruins of Mahmud's capital at Ghazni, Afghanistan, as depicted in a mid-nineteenth-century steel engraving by Albert Henry Payne, possibly after a painting by Lt. James Rathway, Town and Citadel of ...
... remained for half a millennium the classic medical text throughout the Muslim world and Europe. The impact of his Book of Healing and Book of Deliverance on theology in the Muslim world and Christian Europe was equally powerful owing to ...
... remained overwhelmingly Turkic and Muslim down to the Communist takeover in 1949. No less intimate a part of this Central Asian cultural sphere was the ancient region of Khurasan, or “Land of the Rising Sun.” Now reduced to the modest ...
... remained the currency of choice among the locals.83 After destroying the Persians' capital at Persepolis, Alexander of Macedon swept into Central Asia and Afghanistan in 329 bc and waged a bloody three-year war against Bactrians ...
... remained intact. But China's cultural impact was significant, extending to such practical items as the Chinese-type cast coins with square holes that Figure 2.4. Diodotus I, who reigned in Afghanistan in the 50 • Chapter 2.
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 |