Bibliograph

Lost enlightenment, Central Asia's golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane, S. Frederick Starr

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Lost enlightenment, Central Asia's golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane, S. Frederick Starr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [541]-609) and index

Illustrations

platesmapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lost enlightenment

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

840582136

Responsibility statement

S. Frederick Starr

Sub title

Central Asia's golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane

Table Of Contents

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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