By Hendrik Müller
296 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus.
Cloth 2014 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4565-3 | $59.95s | £39.00 | Add to cart
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Amid recent upheaval in the Middle East, American policymakers have often turned to Turkey as an important partner that shared many U.S. interests. This perception of Turkey is based primarily on history.
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane,
Princeton University Press, September 2013.
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.