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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 29 color illus. 48 halftones. 2 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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