Lost EnlightenmentS. Frederick Starr
Lost Enlightenment
by S. Frederick Starr · first published 2013
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite history books?” ↗There is a book you should read, Lost Enlightenment: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691165851/lo... The flourishing of Islamic science took place not in Baghdad, but in Central Asia, and it was already in steep decline when al-Ghazali…
on “Ismail al-Jazari – the medieval 'Father of Robotics'” ↗Since everybody upthread is plugging books let me recommend Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
on “Science and Tech of the Byzantine Empire” ↗I am no expert but I find the topics of Lost Enlightenment Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane very convincing. https://press.princeton.edu/titles/10064.html "Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed…
on “Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)” ↗…Haran. One reason al-Kindi was the “Philosopher of the Arabs” is that he was a tribal Arab. But more typical were Iranians such as Avicenna and al-Razi. If you accept S. Frederick Starr’s argument in Lost Enlightenment and Christopher Beckwith’s in Warriors of the Cloisters Iranians disproportionately from Turan, modern Central Asia, were particularly influential in shaping the high culture and intellectual tone of…
on “Modern mathematics emerged from “The House of Wisdom” in the 13th century” ↗Two books that deal with the intellectual history of Central Asia are Frederick Starr's "Lost Enlightenment" and Christopher I. Beckwith's "Warriors of the cloisters".
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