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

by S. Frederick Starr

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

by S. Frederick Starr

Other books by S. Frederick Starr

The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment by S. Frederick Starr

Xinjiang S. Frederick Starr (editor)

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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Monkey King: Journey to the West Wu Cheng'en, translated by Julia Lovell

The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen

The Story of the Stone (also called Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin

Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys

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The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment
by S. Frederick Starr

Xinjiang
S. Frederick Starr (editor)

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by Ramachandra Guha

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Monkey King: Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en, translated by Julia Lovell

The Argumentative Indian
by Amartya Sen

The Story of the Stone (also called Dream of the Red Chamber)
by Cao Xueqin

Chinese Shadows
by Simon Leys