Lost enlightenment : Central Asia's golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane

Starr, S. Frederick.

Book 2013

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 Per...

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Asie centrale Civilisation Jusqu'à 1500

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ISBN:

9780691157733
0691157731

Description:

xxxvii, 634 pages

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

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

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2013013684

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992485

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