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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Starr, Frederick S.
Titre(s) : Lost enlightenment [Texte imprimé] : Central Asia's golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane / S. Frederick Starr
Publication : Princeton : Princeton University press, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxxvii, 634 pages) ; 25 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-609) and 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. -- Publisher website
Sujet(s) : Asie centrale -- 1221-1500
Asie centrale -- Histoire
Asie centrale -- 712-1221
Indice(s) Dewey :
958.02 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Asie centrale - 1162-1480
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780691157733. - ISBN 0691157731. - ISBN 1400848806. - ISBN 9781400848805 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438130366
Notice n° :
FRBNF43813036
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