Students of world history remind us how Central Asia, a thousand years ago, “led the world” in trade and investment, in urban development, in cultural and intellectual achievement. This was the place that leading thinkers from around the known world would look to for leadership. What were the latest breakthroughs in astronomy or mathematics, in chemistry or medicine, in philosophy or music? This was the place to find out. This region is where algebra got its name, where the earth’s diameter was precisely calculated, where some of the world’s greatest poetry was penned.
–His Highness the Aga Khan,
Inauguration of the Naryn Campus of the University of Central Asia,
October 19, 2016
Inauguration of the Naryn Campus of the University of Central Asia,
October 19, 2016
Elena Paskaleva: Reading Timurid Architecture: Recent Epigraphic Restorations in Samarkand
Sources:
- www.iias.asia/sites/default/files/IIAS_NL64_1011.pdf
- agakhan.fas.harvard.edu
- youtube.com/watch?v=Z3C8bY3ai2Y
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