Reddit reviews Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
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>(someone pls recommend me some good books)
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Comparing Genghis Khan, Timur and Nader Shah is pretty fun.
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The history of Austronesian Madagascar is interesting.
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I'd also recommend Aleksandr Dugin's books and "The Intelligent Investor" by B. Graham.
I had a post regarding my recommended books on the rise of Islam. I'll post it here again for your benefit:
> Here's the best ones: Efraim Karsh's Islamic Imperialism: A History and Robert Hoyland's In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
> Edit: I have read the two books aforementioned, but I'd also recommend this book, which I haven't read: Hugh Kennedy's The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In. All these books fit your criteria. I also have Tom Holland's In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire, but I think this is the least recommendable because of the controversy swirling around it and the documentary it spawned. But it is interesting nevertheless.
I hope this will help!
EDIT: I'll add more recommendations, in regards to the Golden Age of Islam:
I'm not familiar with any book as being the standard best book on the subject, except possibly the second volume of Marshall Hodgson's The Venture of Islam, which is an older book, and something you'd probably want to read the first volume of with to start with; I've not read it myself, but plan to, insha'Allah.
I'm currently listening to the audiobook of S. Frederick Starr's Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. The book emphasizes, with quite a bit of detail, that much of the Islamic Golden Age was carried out by Central Asian thinkers (Turkic-Iranic peoples, but Muslim and non-Muslim, living in what is today Eastern Iran, Afghanistan, and now-former Soviet states, primarily in cities like Balkh, Bukhara, Merv, Nishabur/Nishapur, and Samarkand). While it's full of information, and was largely very well received by the public, there are apparently quite a few issues with the book (at least from a specialist/academic perspectively), mainly concerning parts I haven't gotten to yet, some of which are broken down nicely here. I think it plays into some of the "decline / Al-Ghazali was bad" tropes.