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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... 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.
... secular and religious spheres. As we shall see, the process of Islamization in the region proceeded very slowly, with many other intellectual traditions thriving side-by-side with Islamic thought down to 4 • Chapter 1.
... thought down to the year 1000 and beyond. This allowed ample time for crossfertilization in every direction. There is no more vexing question regarding the flowering of intellectual and cultural life in the era of Ibn Sina and Biruni ...
... thought found its most ardent supporters in Central Asia. Beyond these, the region was also home to Hiwi al-Balkhi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, and Ibn al-Rawandi, all outspoken skeptics of religion or outright atheists. On the other side of the ...
... thought, and the arts were not anonymous toilers or withdrawn ascetics. On the contrary, they were activists who traveled widely, wheeled and dealed with patrons, and engaged in sharp polemics with colleagues. In spite of Muslim ...
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 |