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The Khan's Library: Bukhara's Lost Books and the Fate of Knowledge
In this episode of The Story of Uzbekistan, Lucas and Luna explore the fate of Bukhara's legendary libraries, from the Samanid-era collection that drew scholars across the Islamic world to the catastrophic destruction under the Mongols and the later dispersals under the Russian Empire and Soviet rule. They trace the role of libraries as centers of learning, the scholars who guarded them, and the books that survived against all odds. Along the way, they discuss the rise of papermaking in Samarkand, the Timurid Renaissance's bibliophile rulers, and the modern effort to reconstruct…
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