The heart of Asia
by Sir E. Denison Ross Francis Henry Skrine
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Chapters (428)
- THE HEART OF ASIA
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION
- CHAPTER I Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander
- CHAPTER II Bactrians and Parthians
- CHAPTER III The Huns and the Yué-Chi
- CHAPTER IV The Sāsānides, the Ephthalites, and the Turks
- CHAPTER V The Rise of Islām and Invasions of the Arabs
- CHAPTER VI The First Eastern Campaigns of Kutayba ibn Muslim
- CHAPTER VII Kutayba’s Last Campaigns
- CHAPTER VIII Kutayba’s Fall and Death
- CHAPTER IX Kutayba’s Successors
- CHAPTER X Nasr ibn Sayyār and Abū Muslim
- CHAPTER XI Khorāsān under the First `Abbāsids
- CHAPTER XII The Caliphates of El-Mansūr, El-Hādi, and Hārūn er-Rashīd
- CHAPTER XIII Decline of the Caliphs’ Authority in Khorāsān. The Tāhirides
- CHAPTER XIV The Saffārides and the Rise of the Sāmānides
- CHAPTER XV The Sāmānides
- CHAPTER XVI The Kara-Khānides, or Uïghūrs
- CHAPTER XVII The Ghaznavides and the Rise of the Seljūks
- CHAPTER XVIII The Seljūks
- CHAPTER XIX Sultan Sanjar and the Kara-Khitāys
- CHAPTER XX The Khwārazm-shāhs
- CHAPTER XXI Chingiz Khān
- CHAPTER XXII Mongol Invasion of Central Asia
- CHAPTER XXIII The Line of Chaghatāy
- CHAPTER XXIV Tīmūr, the Great Amīr
- CHAPTER XXV The Successors of Tīmūr
- CHAPTER XXVI THE SHAYBĀNIDES
- CHAPTER XXVII The House of Astrakhan
- CHAPTER XXVIII The House of Mangit
- CHAPTER XXIX Amīr Nasrullah, a Bokhāran Nero
- PART II RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA
- CHAPTER I The Making of Russia
- CHAPTER II Crossing the Threshold of Asia
- CHAPTER III The Struggle with the Khānates
- CHAPTER IV Turkomania and the Turkomans
- CHAPTER V The Last Step in Advance
- CHAPTER VI The Central Asian Railways
- CHAPTER VII Transcaspia in 1898
- CHAPTER VIII Askabad and Merv
- CHAPTER IX Bokhārā, a Protected Native State
- CHAPTER X SAMARKAND
- CHAPTER XI Friends or Foes?
- APPENDIX I
- APPENDIX II
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX
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