Lost enlightenment : Central Asia's golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane
S. Frederick Starr (Author)
In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds--remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia--drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran th
History
1 online resource
9781400848805, 1400848806
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The center of the world
Worldly urbanists, ancient land
A cauldron of skills, ideas, and faiths
How Arabs conquered Central Asia and Central Asia then set the stage to conquer Baghdad
East wind over Baghdad
Wandering scholars
Khurasan : Central Asia's rising star
A flowering of Central Asia : the Samanid dynasty
A moment in the desert : Gurganj under the Mamuns
Turks take the stage: Mahmud of Kashgar and Yusuf of Balasagun
Culture under a Turkic marauder : Mahmud's Ghazni
Tremors under the dome of Seljuk rule
The Mongol century
Tamerlane and his successors
Retrospective : the sand and the oyster
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
In English