乌兹别克斯坦人物
Scientists, rulers and masters whose biographies explain the country.
人物Al-Biruni: The Scholar from Khwarazm Who Measured the Earth
He knew nine languages, worked across dozens of sciences, and calculated the size of the Earth using a single mountain and trigonometry five hundred years before Magellan. Al-Biruni studied everything — from minerals to Indian philosophy — and left behind...
人物Al-Khwarizmi: The Man Whose Name Became the Word "Algorithm"
Every time the world says "algebra" and "algorithm," it remembers a scholar from Khwarazm — though almost no one suspects it. One word was born from the title of his book, the other from the Latin form of his name. Al-Khwarizmi didn't merely solve equations...
人物Avicenna: The Doctor from Near Bukhara Who Taught Europe Medicine
By the age of fourteen he had read every medical book to be found in Bukhara and begun treating the most difficult patients. His main work remained a textbook for the doctors of Europe for five centuries. Ibn Sina — a man born in a Samanid village near...
人物Babur: The Exile from Ferghana Who Founded an Empire
At twelve he received the throne of a small Ferghana principality — and at once began to lose it. Three times he took Samarkand and three times gave it up. Driven from his homeland, he crossed the mountains and founded in India an empire that lasted three...
历史Amir Timur: The Ruler Who Built Samarkand
A commander, state builder and patron whose empire changed Central Asia. His legacy is inseparable from Samarkand, from Gur-e-Amir to the imperial idea of the city.
人物Ulugh Beg: The Ruler of Samarkand Who Looked to the Stars
The grandson of the greatest conqueror of his time could have gone on expanding the empire by the sword. Instead he built an observatory and measured the sky more precisely than anyone in the medieval world. Ulugh Beg was an astronomer on the throne — and...