Lost enlightenment : Central Asia's golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane
Häftad bok. Princeton : Princeton University Press. 2013.
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780691165851
- Titel
- Lost enlightenment : Central Asia's golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane
- Författare
- Starr, S. Frederick
- Förlag
- Princeton : Princeton University Press
- Utgivningsår
- 2013
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Includes bibliographical references(pages 541-609) and index.
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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