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Having reviewed diverse theories and hypotheses on the waning of the Age of Enlightenment in Central Asia, it is now time to step back and raise a larger question: does it really require an explanation? The assumption behind our search for causes is that if one or another factor had not come into play, the movement of thought would have continued. But that great period of intense cerebration, that age of inquiry and innovation, had lasted for more than four centuries. If more information on the
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― Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
― Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
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