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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... trade contact with India and China, as well as the Middle East. By contrast, even speakers of Iranian or Turkic languages further west looked mainly to the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Europe.31 Thus, to speak an Iranian or Turkic ...
... trade that reached as far as India, the Middle East, and China. Indeed, Balkh was perfectly positioned along the main route across Afghanistan to India and westward to the Mediterranean.4 Even today one finds on the surface at Balkh ...
... trade contact with the Iranian lands and Middle East. Thus one line of the genealogy of Gothic arches may trace to Buddhist Central Asia. But this would not be the end of the trail, since an Indian origin for this feature of Buddhist ...
... trade and cultural contacts with all three of these centers of world civilization. And in at least one sphere the Central Asians led the pack. Thanks to the research of two ingenious American archaeologists, Raphael Pumpelly around 1900 ...
... trade. Was There a Climate Boost? To approach Balkh today is a sad experience. Where ancient visitors reported on vineyards, citrus groves, and fields of sugar cane, there is only sagebrush and dust, relieved by an occasional hollyhock ...
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 |