Author: Asimov, Muhammad Seyfeydinovich
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231034677
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Part One: The Historical, Social and Economic SettingDuring the eight centuries covered in this volume, the new faith of Islam arose in Arabia and gradually spread eastwards and northwards, eventually affecting much of Central Asia, the southern fringes of Siberia and the eastern regions of China. These were also the centuries in which nomadic and military empires arose in the heart of Asia, impinging on the history of adjacent, well-established civilizations and cultures (China, India, Islamic Western Asia and Christian eastern and central Europe) to an unparalleled extent. Lamaist Buddhism established itself inthe Mongolian region and in Tibet and Islam among the Turkish people of Transoxania, southern Siberia and Xinjiang. It was in Eastern Europe, above all in Russia, that the Turco-Mongol Golden Horde was to have a major, enduring influence on the course of the region's history.
History of civilizations of Central Asia
Author: Asimov, Muhammad Seyfeydinovich
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231034677
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Part One: The Historical, Social and Economic SettingDuring the eight centuries covered in this volume, the new faith of Islam arose in Arabia and gradually spread eastwards and northwards, eventually affecting much of Central Asia, the southern fringes of Siberia and the eastern regions of China. These were also the centuries in which nomadic and military empires arose in the heart of Asia, impinging on the history of adjacent, well-established civilizations and cultures (China, India, Islamic Western Asia and Christian eastern and central Europe) to an unparalleled extent. Lamaist Buddhism established itself inthe Mongolian region and in Tibet and Islam among the Turkish people of Transoxania, southern Siberia and Xinjiang. It was in Eastern Europe, above all in Russia, that the Turco-Mongol Golden Horde was to have a major, enduring influence on the course of the region's history.
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231034677
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Part One: The Historical, Social and Economic SettingDuring the eight centuries covered in this volume, the new faith of Islam arose in Arabia and gradually spread eastwards and northwards, eventually affecting much of Central Asia, the southern fringes of Siberia and the eastern regions of China. These were also the centuries in which nomadic and military empires arose in the heart of Asia, impinging on the history of adjacent, well-established civilizations and cultures (China, India, Islamic Western Asia and Christian eastern and central Europe) to an unparalleled extent. Lamaist Buddhism established itself inthe Mongolian region and in Tibet and Islam among the Turkish people of Transoxania, southern Siberia and Xinjiang. It was in Eastern Europe, above all in Russia, that the Turco-Mongol Golden Horde was to have a major, enduring influence on the course of the region's history.
Chaghatai
Author: Syed Z. Ahmed
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741423006
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book is my magnificent odyssey over the Silk Road. I have tried to provide an accurate picture of the dramatic journey into Xinjiang in China and the spectacular mountains and deserts that flank the Silk Road.
Publisher: Infinity Publishing
ISBN: 0741423006
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book is my magnificent odyssey over the Silk Road. I have tried to provide an accurate picture of the dramatic journey into Xinjiang in China and the spectacular mountains and deserts that flank the Silk Road.
Four Studies on the History of Central Asia: Ulugh-beg
Author: Vasiliĭ Vladimirovich Bartolʹd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
World-maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca
Author: David King
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004450734
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004450734
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.
Four Studies on the History of Central Asia
Author: Vasiliĭ Vladimirovich Bartolʹd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Four Studies on the History of Central Asia
Author: Vasilii Vladimirovitch Barthold
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Ulugh Beg's Catalogue of Stars, Revised from All Persian Manuscripts Existing in Great Britain, with a Vocabulary of Persian and Arabic Words
Author: Edward Ball Knobel
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353921231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789353921231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
A History of Inner Asia
Author: Svatopluk Soucek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521657044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Sample Text
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521657044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Sample Text
The History of Central Asia
Author: Christoph Baumer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838609407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. This third volume of Christoph Baumer's extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of the region is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often brutal conquest profoundly shaped the later history of the globe. The author explores the rise of Islam and the remarkable victories of the Arab armies which - inspired by their vital, austere and egalitarian desert faith - established important new dynasties like the Seljuks, Karakhanids and Ghaznavids. A golden age of artistic, literary and scientific innovation came to a sudden end when, between 1219 and 1260, Genghiz Khan and his successors overran the Chorasmian-Abbasid lands. Dr Baumer shows that the Mongol conquests, while shattering to their enemies, nevertheless resulted in much greater mercantile and cultural contact between Central Asia and Western Europe.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838609407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based empire the world has ever seen. This third volume of Christoph Baumer's extensively praised and lavishly illustrated new history of the region is above all a story of invasion, when tumultuous and often brutal conquest profoundly shaped the later history of the globe. The author explores the rise of Islam and the remarkable victories of the Arab armies which - inspired by their vital, austere and egalitarian desert faith - established important new dynasties like the Seljuks, Karakhanids and Ghaznavids. A golden age of artistic, literary and scientific innovation came to a sudden end when, between 1219 and 1260, Genghiz Khan and his successors overran the Chorasmian-Abbasid lands. Dr Baumer shows that the Mongol conquests, while shattering to their enemies, nevertheless resulted in much greater mercantile and cultural contact between Central Asia and Western Europe.