S.Frederick Starr,Lost Enlightenment:Central Asia’s Golden Age from Arab Conquest to Tamerlane,Princeton:Princeton University Press,2013,xxxvii+696 pp.美国学者弗雷德里克·斯塔尔的《失落的启蒙:从阿拉伯人征服到帖木儿时期的中亚黄金时代》一书梳理了从公元750年阿拉伯人征服中亚,到15世纪中叶帖木儿时期中亚文化启蒙、发展的脉络。作者将这段时期分成阿拉伯人的征服和统治、突厥人的统治、蒙古人的征服和统治等三个阶段,探讨了中亚文化启蒙时代的背景、哲学和科学成就,以及启蒙时代衰退的原因。 S. Frederick Starr, Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013, xxxvii + 696 pp. American Scholar Frederick Starr’s “Lost Enlightenment: From the Arabs The conquest of the Golden Age of Central Asia in Timur period ”is a collection of contexts from the conquest of Central Asia by Arabs in 750 AD to the enlightenment and development of Central Asian culture during the Timurid period in the mid-15th century. The author divides this period into three stages: the conquest and rule of Arabs, the rule of Turkic people, the Mongols conquest and rule, and explores the background, philosophical and scientific achievements of the Enlightenment era in Central Asia and the reasons for the decline of Enlightenment .