The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the RenaissancePenguin, 31/03/2011 - 336 من الصفحات 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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A Dream of Aristotle | |
The Rise of Islam | |
Translation | |
The Lonely Alchemist | |
The House of Wisdom | |
Big Science | |
Numbers | |
The Physicist | |
The Prince and the Pauper | |
Andalusia | |
The Marāgha Revolution | |
Decline and Renaissance | |
Science and Islam Today | |
Notes Glossary of Scientists | |
The Islamic World from Antiquity to the Beginning of the Modern Period | |
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