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Author : Vasiliĭ Vladimirovich Bartolʹd
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Total Pages : 573 pages
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Download or read book Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion written by Vasiliĭ Vladimirovich Bartolʹd and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Barthold
Publisher : Acls History E-Book Project
ISBN 13 : 9781597404501
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion written by W. Barthold and published by Acls History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vasilij V. Bartolʹd
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Download or read book Turkestan written by Vasilij V. Bartolʹd and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vasiliĭ Vladimirovich Bartolʹd
Publisher : Gibb Memorial Trust
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Total Pages : 620 pages
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Download or read book Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion written by Vasiliĭ Vladimirovich Bartolʹd and published by Gibb Memorial Trust. This book was released on 1977 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Bartol'd
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Total Pages : 573 pages
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Download or read book Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion written by W. Bartol'd and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : V. V. Barthold
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Download or read book Turkestan written by V. V. Barthold and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : V. V. Bartol
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ISBN 13 : 9780758193902
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion written by V. V. Bartol and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9788121505444
Total Pages : 573 pages
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Download or read book Turkestan: Down to the Mongol Invasion written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vasilij Vladimirovic Bartol'd
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Download or read book Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion written by Vasilij Vladimirovic Bartol'd and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vasilii Vladimirovich Bartold
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Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book Turkestan down to the Mongol invasion written by Vasilii Vladimirovich Bartold and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Frederick Starr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165858
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Lost Enlightenment written by S. Frederick Starr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacy 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. 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 written in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general readers and specialists alike.
Author : David O. Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786733838
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Coming of the Mongols written by David O. Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. As this new volume in The Idea of Iran series suggests, sudden conquest from the east was preceded by events closer to home which laid the groundwork for the later Mongol success. In the mid-twelfth century the Seljuq empire rapidly unravelled, its vast provinces fragmenting into a patchwork of mostly short-lived principalities and kingdoms. In time, new powers emerged, such as the pagan Qara-Khitai in Central Asia; the Khwarazmshahs in Khwarazm, Khorosan and much of central Iran; and the Ghurids to the southeast. Yet all were blown away by the Mongols, who faced no resistance from a sufficiently muscular imperial competitor and whose influx was viewed by contemporaries as cataclysmic. Distinguished scholars including David O Morgan and the late C E Bosworth here discuss the dynasties that preceded the invasion - and aspects of their literature, poetry and science - as well as the conquerors themselves and their rule in Iran from 1219 to 1256.
Author : Lena Jonson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085771726X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Tajikistan in the New Central Asia written by Lena Jonson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-08-25 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Asia has become the battleground for the major struggles of the 21st century: radical Islam versus secularism, authoritarianism versus identity politics, Eastern versus Western control of resources, and the American 'War on Terror'. Nowhere are these conflicts more starkly illustrated than in the case of Tajikistan. Embedded in the oil-rich Central Asian region, and bordering war-torn Afghanistan, Tajikistan occupies a geo-strategically pivotal position. It is also a major transit hub for the smuggling of opium, which eventually ends up in the hands of heroin dealers in Western cities. In this timely book, Lena Jonson examines Tajikistan's search for a foreign policy in the post 9/11 environment. She shows the internal contradictions of a country in every sense at the crossroads, reconciling its bloody past with an uncertain future. She assesses the impact of regional developments on the reform movement in Tajikistan, and in turn examines how changes in Tajik society (which is the only Central Asian country to have a legal Islamist party) might affect the region. The destiny of Tajikistan is intimately connected with that of Central Asia, and this thorough and penetrating book is essential reading for anyone seeking to make sense of this complex and important region.
Author : Marie Favereau
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674244214
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Horde written by Marie Favereau and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic history of the Mongols as we have never seen them—not just conquerors but also city builders, diplomats, and supple economic thinkers who constructed one of the most influential empires in history. The Mongols are widely known for one thing: conquest. In the first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire that arose after the death of Chinggis Khan, Marie Favereau shows that the accomplishments of the Mongols extended far beyond war. For three hundred years, the Horde was no less a force in global development than Rome had been. It left behind a profound legacy in Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, palpable to this day. Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles. Its unique political regime—a complex power-sharing arrangement among the khan and the nobility—rewarded skillful administrators and diplomats and fostered an economic order that was mobile, organized, and innovative. From its capital at Sarai on the lower Volga River, the Horde provided a governance model for Russia, influenced social practice and state structure across Islamic cultures, disseminated sophisticated theories about the natural world, and introduced novel ideas of religious tolerance. The Horde is the eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire little understood and too readily dismissed. Challenging conceptions of nomads as peripheral to history, Favereau makes clear that we live in a world inherited from the Mongol moment.
Author : Ayan Shome
Publisher : Vij Books India Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9384318469
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Dialogue & Daggers written by Ayan Shome and published by Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Delhi Sultanate has captured the political imagination ever since its inception at the end of the twelfth century. In various way, both direct and indirect it sets the tone of life in the modern day Indian polity; especially in terms of the questions it raises regarding the relations betweens religious identities (Hindu and Muslim), and how these shape the fortunes of the Indian nation to this day. It can be argued that one of the reasons why the Delhi Sultanate and subsequent Muslim ruled polities in India have raised so much acrimony, is due to the notion that the establishment of these often violent polities and their development represented a sense of abrupt change from pre-Islamic India; making these polities look like an unnatural intrusion into the civilizational landscape of India; an intrusion that ended the 'Hindu' period of Indian history, a chronological and cultural categorization which many accept to this day. However the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate was not a simplistic intrusion. Instead it can be argued that the Delhi Sultanate represented a form of continuity in that it enhanced a warrior culture that was already prevalent in Northern India; a culture that valued military capability as a sign of innate authority, and used this authority for formulating a political hierarchy; where warrior identity and religious values were seen as deeply intertwined, and at times conflated. In a military environment like this the Sultanate as a polity had much to offer as it consisted of individuals and groups, who back in their Central Asian homeland were themselves in a process of social and cultural mobilization within the ambit of a warrior identity; a mobilization that was closely linked to Islamicization. Hence, the Delhi Sultanate operated in a geographical space where both forms of warrior identities came in to dialogue; a dialogue that involved both violence and co-operation. It will argued here that the Delhi Sultanate was a dynamic which involved the interaction of an Iranic warrior identity, which was closely linked to Islamicization in Central Asia and an Indic warrior identity closely linked to social and cultural processes in India; and it was not primarily a religious conflict, based on doctrinal difference. Religion did play a part, but not in the manner that has normally been envisaged in the popular imagination and mainstream historiography to this day.
Author : Michael Hope
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081086
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Power, Politics, and Tradition in the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate of Iran written by Michael Hope and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted in the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in the Middle East, the Īlkhānate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was intimately tied to the character of its founder, Chinggis Khan, whose reign served as an idealized model for the exercise of legitimate authority amongst his political successors. Yet Chinggis Khan's legacy was interpreted differently by the various factions within his army. In the years after his death, two distinct political traditions emerged within the Mongol Empire, the collegial and the patrimonialist. Each of these streams represented the economic and political interests of different groups within the Mongol Empire, respectively, the military aristocracy and the central government. The supporters of both streams claimed to adhere to the ideal of Chinggisid rule, but their different statuses within the Mongol community led them to hold divergent views of what constituted legitimate political authority. Michael Hope's study details the origin of, and the differences between, these two streams of tradition; analyzing the role that these streams played in the political development of the Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate; and assessing the role that ideological tension between the two streams played in the events leading up to the division of the Īlkhānate. Hope demonstrates that the policy and identity of both the Early Mongol Empire and the Īlkhānate were defined by the conflict between these competing streams of Chinggisid authority.
Author : Paul Wheatley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226894282
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book The Places Where Men Pray Together written by Paul Wheatley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a city an economic, political, and cultural center? In The Places Where Men Pray Together, Paul Wheatley draws on two decades of astonishingly wide-ranging research to demonstrate that Islamic cities are defined by function rather than form—by what they do rather than what they are. Focusing on the roles of cities during the first four centuries of Islamic expansion, Wheatley explores interconnected cultural, historical, economic, political, and religious factors to provide the clearest and most extensively documented portrait of early Islamic urban centers available to date. Building on the tenth-century geographer al-Maqdisi's writings on urban centers of the Islamic world, buttressed by extensive comparative material from roadbooks, topographies, histories, adab literatures, and gazetteers of the time, Wheatley identifies the main functions of different Islamic urban centers. Chapters on each of the thirteen centers that al-Maqdisi identified, ranging from the Atlantic to the Indus and from the Caspian to the Sudan, form the heart of this book. In each case Wheatley shows how specific agglomeration and accessibility factors combined to make every city functionally distinct as a creator of effective space. He also demonstrates that, far from revolutionizing every aspect of life in these cities, the adoption of Islam often affected the development of these cities less than previously existing local traditions. The Places Where Men Pray Together is a monumental work that will speak to scholars and readers across a broad variety of disciplines, from historians, anthropologists, and sociologists to religious historians, archaeologists, and geographers.
