Lost Enlightenment : : Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane / / S. Frederick Starr.
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 worl...
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Starr, S. Frederick, author. Lost Enlightenment : Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane / S. Frederick Starr. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource : 29 color illus. 48 halftones. 2 maps. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Dramatis Personae -- Chronology -- Chapter 1. The Center of the World -- Chapter 2. Worldly Urbanists, Ancient Land -- Chapter 3. A Cauldron of Skills, Ideas, and Faiths -- Chapter 4. How Arabs Conquered Central Asia and Central Asia Then Set the Stage to Conquer Baghdad -- Chapter 5. East Wind over Baghdad -- Chapter 6. Wandering Scholars -- Chapter 7. Khurasan: Central Asia's Rising Star -- Chapter 8. A Flowering of Central Asia: The Samanid Dynasty -- Chapter 9. A Moment in the Desert: Gurganj under the Mamuns -- Chapter 10. Turks Take the Stage: Mahmud of Kashgar and Yusuf of Balasagun -- Chapter 11. Culture under a Turkic Marauder: Mahmud's Ghazni -- Chapter 12. Tremors under the Dome of Seljuk Rule -- Chapter 13. The Mongol Century -- Chapter 14. Tamerlane and His Successors -- Chapter 15. Retrospective: The Sand and the Oyster -- Notes -- Index 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 through Xinjiang, China. Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry. One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America--five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia. Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet written in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general readers and specialists alike.Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia. bisacsh print 9780691157733 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400848805 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400848805.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Dramatis Personae -- Chronology -- Chapter 1. The Center of the World -- Chapter 2. Worldly Urbanists, Ancient Land -- Chapter 3. A Cauldron of Skills, Ideas, and Faiths -- Chapter 4. How Arabs Conquered Central Asia and Central Asia Then Set the Stage to Conquer Baghdad -- Chapter 5. East Wind over Baghdad -- Chapter 6. Wandering Scholars -- Chapter 7. Khurasan: Central Asia's Rising Star -- Chapter 8. A Flowering of Central Asia: The Samanid Dynasty -- Chapter 9. A Moment in the Desert: Gurganj under the Mamuns -- Chapter 10. Turks Take the Stage: Mahmud of Kashgar and Yusuf of Balasagun -- Chapter 11. Culture under a Turkic Marauder: Mahmud's Ghazni -- Chapter 12. Tremors under the Dome of Seljuk Rule -- Chapter 13. The Mongol Century -- Chapter 14. Tamerlane and His Successors -- Chapter 15. Retrospective: The Sand and the Oyster -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Dramatis Personae -- Chronology -- Chapter 1. The Center of the World -- Chapter 2. Worldly Urbanists, Ancient Land -- Chapter 3. A Cauldron of Skills, Ideas, and Faiths -- Chapter 4. How Arabs Conquered Central Asia and Central Asia Then Set the Stage to Conquer Baghdad -- Chapter 5. East Wind over Baghdad -- Chapter 6. Wandering Scholars -- Chapter 7. Khurasan: Central Asia's Rising Star -- Chapter 8. A Flowering of Central Asia: The Samanid Dynasty -- Chapter 9. A Moment in the Desert: Gurganj under the Mamuns -- Chapter 10. Turks Take the Stage: Mahmud of Kashgar and Yusuf of Balasagun -- Chapter 11. Culture under a Turkic Marauder: Mahmud's Ghazni -- Chapter 12. Tremors under the Dome of Seljuk Rule -- Chapter 13. The Mongol Century -- Chapter 14. Tamerlane and His Successors -- Chapter 15. Retrospective: The Sand and the Oyster -- Notes -- Index |
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