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Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

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Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins

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In this rich and sweeping 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. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth’s diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world’s greatest poetry.

One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America - five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia.

Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet presented in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general listeners and specialists alike.

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Creation Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 07:49:02 +0200
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 01 - Preface.mp3 9.55 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 02 - Chapter 1 The Center of the World.mp3 38.26 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 03 - Chapter 2 Worldly Urbanists, Ancient Land.mp3 40.82 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 04 - Chapter 3 A Cauldron of Skills, Ideas, and Faiths.mp3 48.16 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 05 - Chapter 4 How Arabs Conquered Central Asia and Central Asia Then Set the Stage to Conquer Baghdad.mp3 32.44 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 06 - Chapter 5 East Wind over Baghdad.mp3 39.74 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 07 - Chapter 6 Wandering Scholars.mp3 48.03 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 08 - Chapter 7 Khurasan—Central Asia’s Rising Star.mp3 41.38 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 09 - Chapter 8a A Flowering of Central Asia—The Samanid Dynasty 1.mp3 25.33 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 11 - Chapter 9 A Moment in the Desert—Gurganj under the Mamuns.mp3 46.72 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 12 - Chapter 10 Turks Take the Stage—Mahmud of Kashgar and Yusuf of Balasagun.mp3 35.21 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 15 - Chapter 12a Tremors under the Dome of Seljuk Rule 1.mp3 30.76 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 17 - Chapter 13 The Mongol Century.mp3 50.42 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 18 - Chapter 14 Tamerlane and His Successors.mp3 42.85 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment - 19 - Chapter 15 Retrospective—The Sand and the Oyster.mp3 30.86 MBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane Lost Enlightenment.nfo 1.29 KBs
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Lost Enlightenment—Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane bk_adbl_015794.pdf 46.44 MBs
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