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An unprecedented, thorough study in English of the Islamic Enlightenment in Central Asia has the added advantage of using the term in its title: S. Frederick Starr.Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’sGolden Agefrom the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013, ...
Besides the two official languages, there are many local languages: Pashto, Sindhi, Balochi, Punjabi, Potohari, Shina, Wakhi, Burushaski… the list goes on! Every province has its own regional language, such as the aforementioned Punjabi and Sindhi. In major cities people mostly speak Urdu, bu...