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100 1  Starr, S. Frederick. 
245 10 Lost enlightenment :|bCentral Asia's golden age from the 
       Arab conquest to Tamerlane /|cS. Frederick Starr. 
264  1 Princeton :|bPrinceton University Press,|c[2013] 
300    xxxvii, 634 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color), maps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [541]-609) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
651  0 Asia, Central|xHistory|yTo 1500. 
651  0 Asia, Central|xCivilization|xHistory|yTo 1500. 
651  7 Zentralasien.|2gnd 
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