Lost enlightenment : Central Asia's golden age from the Arab conquest to Tamerlane / S. Frederick Starr.
By: Starr, S. Frederick.
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BookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013Description: xxxvii, 634 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780691157733 (hardcover).Subject(s): Asia, Central -- History -- To 1500DDC classification: 958/.02 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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American Center for Mongolian Studies | DS288.3 .S73 2013 (Browse shelf) | Available | 20287 |
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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