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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... writing in English, French, German, or Russian, who have standardized them in accordance with the particular rules of their own languages, in the process often distorting the originals. Thus, to take just one example, is the region of ...
... writer, Pliny the Elder, in ad 77, to pen an encyclopedia, which was followed up by the Sicilian Cassiodorus in the mid-sixth century. But for the sheer number and ... writing has come down to us. Whole bodies of The Center of the World • 7.
... writing has come down to us. Whole bodies of works by scientists and thinkers who were considered stars of the intellectual world have been lost or are known only through an occasional quotation buried in the works of others. We know ...
... Englishman. Most of the writers and thinkers mentioned above may have passed their professional lives in an Arabic-speaking professional milieu, but Arabic was not their native language, nor were they Arabs. 16 • Chapter 1.
... writers and intellectuals is that they were formed mainly by urban environments and spent their careers in cities ... writing not in a rural monastery but at his urban residence only a few paces from the main east-west caravan route ...
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 |