The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
ISBN-13:
9780143120568
ISBN-10:
0143120565
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Jim Al-Khalili
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
Category:
Great Britain
,
Middle East History
,
World History
,
History & Philosophy
,
European History
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ISBN-13:
9780143120568
ISBN-10:
0143120565
Edition:
Reprint
Author:
Jim Al-Khalili
Publication date:
2012
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Format:
Paperback
352 pages
Category:
Great Britain
,
Middle East History
,
World History
,
History & Philosophy
,
European History
Summary
The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance (ISBN-13: 9780143120568 and ISBN-10: 0143120565), written by authors
Jim Al-Khalili, was published by Penguin Books in 2012.
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Description
A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness. Jim al- Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history, and given current East-West tensions, his book could not be timelier. With transporting detail, al-Khalili places readers in the hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment, shows how they led to Europe's cultural awakening, and poses the question: Why did the Islamic world enter its own dark age after such a dazzling flowering?
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