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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... tradition as the tomb of the Kyrgyz epic hero Manas, but more likely the tomb of a local khan's daughter 471 14.1. Ruins of the main gate to Timur's palace, Aksarai, at Shakhrsabz, Uzbekistan 483 14.2. Looming mass of the never ...
... tradition that continues today in the likes of Josef van Ess, Gotthard Strohmaier, and a host of younger scholars from both the former East and West, while the Czech Republic claims the great literary scholar Jan Ripka. Across the ...
... tradition of high scholarship and, increasingly, make its fruits available in the languages of the region. Thanks to them, and to many others, a younger generation of highly qualified scholars is emerging across the region. Trained by ...
... tradition. Ferdowsi, whose immense panorama of the civilization of Iranic peoples, the Shahnameh, set a world standard for other national epics, was a native of Khorasan, and most of his epic was set in Central Asia, not the lands that ...
... tradition in science and technology to wane, this inquiry is justly called “the Needham Question.” It remains open. roads Not Taken These, then, are the great questions to which this work is dedicated, and which this or any other ...
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 |