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

Lost Enlightenment

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

By
S. Frederick Starr
S. Frederick Starr
2013 • 634 pages

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81 books

Asia

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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Hun Sen’s Cambodia
China's Last Empire
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
The Rising Sun

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13 books

Middle East

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The Kite Runner
Lawrence in Arabia
A History of the Arab Peoples
Exit West
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

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The Caves of Steel
The Naked Sun
The Robots of Dawn
Foundation
The Gods Themselves
Fahrenheit 451
Something Wicked This Way Comes

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138 books

Non Fiction

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We Want Freedom
Icy Battleground: Canada the IFAW and the Seal Hunt
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Guns, Germs and Steel
The dude abides

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68 books

History

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The Vikings
Greece and Rome: An Integrated History of the Ancient Mediterranean
Great Ancient Civilizations of Asia Minor
The History of Ancient Egypt
The History of Ancient Rome

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Ready

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Landskipping: Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Hedge Britannia
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
Ten Days in May
Shanghai Grand: Forbidden Love and International Intrigue in a Doomed World
The Isles: A History
The Pride of the Yankees: Lou Gehrig, Gary Cooper, and the Making of a Classic

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The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Aviators, The: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil
Becoming Queen

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152 books

Asia

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Gandhi and Churchill
The Case of the Missing Servant: From the Files of Vish Puri, Most Private Investigator
The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing
The case of the deadly butter chicken
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Case of the Love Commandos

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1,113 books

Prologue

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C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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82 books

Religion Philosophy

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The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes

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114 books

Middle East Arab World

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Jerusalem: The Biography
Accusations of Unbelief in Islam A Diachronic Perspective on Takfīr
Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul
Parting the desert
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East
The Arabs: A History
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East

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17,813 books

My Library

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Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind