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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2013. Description: xxxvii, 634 pages, [16] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691157733
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS288.3. S73 2013
Contents:
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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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University DS288.3.S73 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ACKU000374248
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Includes bibliographical references.

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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