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, ...
with a reason, as having let the country be stolen from them. It’s not what they did in WWII, it’s the post-WWII lives, with much self-adoration and fun but little thought, that deserves the harsh judgment — the judgment the grandchildren are entitled to. You...