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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... thousand cities,” shown on a gold stater 51 2.5. Parthian warrior 52 2.6. Early wood sculpture by a nomad artist 55 3.1. Sculpture of a Greek horseman 78 3.2. Virtual reconstruction of the classical Greek theater and palace area at Ai ...
... thousand years ago in a region now often dismissed as a backwater and valued mainly for its natural resources, not its intellectual achievements. We know of it because copies survived in manuscript and were published almost a millennium ...
... republics that became independent states in 1991–1992. But over the previous two thousand years, most observers recognized the existence of a much larger cultural zone at the heart of Asia, one that included what The Center of the World • ...
... thousand years; while the mountain chains embrace the Pamirs and Karakorams, both of which are far higher than the Alps. One Karakoram peak in Pakistan-ruled Kashmir, K2, is a mere 777 feet shorter than Everest, and it is only one of ...
... thousand acres, while the outermost walls that protected its suburban region and gardens were more than seventy-five miles in length.2 On the rich fields bounded by the outer walls, the ancient traveler encountered groves of oranges ...
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 |