House of Wisdom How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization

Name: House of Wisdom How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
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ISBN: 9781608190584

ISBN-10: 1608190587

ISBN-13: 9781608190584

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jonathan Lyons

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"Dust will never gather on Jonathan Lyons' lively new book of medieval history...Lyons tells his multilayered story deftly, forsaking the tyranny of chronology to flesh out ideas and personalities."Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFor centuries following the fall of Rome, western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arabic culture thrived, dazzling the few Europeans who glimpsed the scientific advances coming from the capitals of the Islamic world. In Baghdad's royal library, known as the House of Wisdom, an army of scholars broke new ground in astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy, among other disciplines.Even as…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 4/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.58" wide x 8.17" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Note to Readers


Significant Events


Leading Figures


Prologue: Al-Maghrib/Sunset



Al-Isha/Nightfall



The Warriors of God



The Earth Is Like a Wheel



Al-Fajr/Dawn



The House of Wisdom



Mapping the World



Al-Zuhr/Midday



The First Man of Science



"What Is Said of the Sphere …"



"The Wisest Philosophers of the World&rldquo;



Al-Asr/Afternoon



On the Eternity of the World



The Invention of the West


Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index