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

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

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Honorable Mention for the 2013 PROSE Award in European and World History, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 "A fantastic book."--President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan "Lost Enlightenment is a remarkable and accessible scholarl...

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Main Author: Starr, S. Frederick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
History of religion > CE period up to c 1500 > c 500 CE to c 1000 CE > c 1000 CE to c 1500.
History of religion.
To 1500
History.
Asia, Central > History > To 1500.
Online Access:CONNECT
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

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