The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance |
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| Authors: | Al-Khalili, Jim |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | SCI034000, HIS026000, HIS037000 |
| ISBN: | 9781101476239, Related ISBNs: 0143120565, 1101476230, 1594202796, 9780143120568, 9781101476239 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 336, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
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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