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Author | : Jim Al-Khalili |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2011-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1101476230 |
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?
Author | : Jonathan Lyons |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2011-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1608191907 |
For centuries following the fall of Rome, western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a glimpse of the scientific advances coming from Baghdad, Antioch, or the cities of Persia, Central Asia, and Muslim Spain. T here, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge and revitalizing the works of Plato and Aristotle. I n the royal library of Baghdad, known as the House of Wisdom, an army of scholars worked at the behest of the Abbasid caliphs. At a time when the best book collections in Europe held several dozen volumes, the House of Wisdom boasted as many as four hundred thousand. Even while their countrymen waged bloody Crusades against Muslims, a handful of intrepid Christian scholars, thirsty for knowledge, traveled to Arab lands and returned with priceless jewels of science, medicine, and philosophy that laid the foundation for the Renaissance. I n this brilliant, evocative book, Lyons shows just how much "Western" culture owes to the glories of medieval Arab civilization, and reveals the untold story of how Europe drank from the well of Muslim learning.
Author | : Salim T. S. Al-Hassani |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1426209347 |
Modern society owes a tremendous amount to the Muslim world for the many groundbreaking scientific and technological advances that were pioneered during the Golden Age of Muslim civilization between the 7th and 17th centuries. Every time you drink coffee, eat a three-course meal, get a whiff of your favorite perfume, take shelter in an earthquake-resistant structure, get a broken bone set or solve an algebra problem, it is in part due to the discoveries of Muslim civilization.
Author | : Florence Parry Heide |
Publisher | : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley) |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Ishaq, the son of the chief translator to the Caliph of ancient Baghdad, travels the world in search of precious books and manuscripts and brings them back to the great library known as the House of Wisdom.
Author | : Jonathan Lyons |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Arab countries |
ISBN | : 9781408800317 |
For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Augustine had decreed that belief, not reason, should be the guiding light of Christian thinking and partially as a result Europeans lived in a world of nominal literacy and subsistence farming, where blind faith, superstition and sorcery took the place of medicine, and the church harnessed nascent aggression among the kingdoms to its own ends in the pursuit of astonishingly violent and cruel holy wars - the Crusades. Arab culture, however, was thriving, and had become a powerhouse of intellectual exploration and discussion that dazzled the likes of Adelard of Bath who ventured to the Near East in search of the scientific riches pouring out of cities like Antioch or Baghdad, whose House of Wisdom held four hundred thousand books at a time when the best European libraries housed, at most, several dozen. The Arabs could measure the earth's circumference, a feat not matched in the West for eight hundred years; they discovered algebra; were adept at astronomy and navigation, developed the astrolabe, translated all the Greek scientific and philosophical texts including, importantly, those of Aristotle; they made paper lenses and mirrors. Without them, and the knowledge that travellers like Adelard brought back to the West, Europe would in all likelihood have been a very different place over the last millennium. In this fascinating and thoughtful book Jonathan Lyons restores credit to the Arab thinkers of the past, explores and reveals the extent of their learning and describes the intrepid adventures of those who went in search of it and who, in doing so, laid the foundations of what we now call the Renaissance.
Author | : Abhishek Pandey |
Publisher | : Notion Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2022-07-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
The House Of Wisdom is a Book written by Abhishek Pandey and published by Notion Press in 2022.
Author | : Ekmeleddin Ihsanoğlu |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 2022-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000736288 |
This volume examines the library of the Abbasid caliphs, known as "The House of Wisdom" ("Bayt al-Hikma"), exploring how this important institution has been misconceived by scholars’. This book places the palace library within the framework of the multifaceted cultural and scientific activities in the era of the caliphs, Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma’mun, generally regarded as the Golden Age of Islamic civilization. The author studies the first references to the House of Wisdom in European sources and shows how misconceptions arose because of incorrect translations of Arabic manuscripts and also because of how scholars overlooked the historical context of the library in ways that reflected their own cultural and national ambitions. The Abbasid House of Wisdom is perfect for scholars, students, and the wider public interested in the scientific and cultural activities of the Islamic Golden Age.
Author | : Francis Bampfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 28 |
Release | : 1681 |
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Author | : Alastair Macleod |
Publisher | : BookRix |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2018-03-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3743858142 |
The culture of the Middle East contains a vast repository of stories. Circulating for hundreds of years in oral form, and often told by professional storytellers in the marketplace, the West became aware of them initially through Bible stories, and later through versions of the Arabian Tales in The One Thousand and One Nights. Complex and often multilayered, connected to Sufist thought, these stories can reveal deep psychological understanding of human behaviour, as well as humour and life guidance to the reader.
Author | : John S. Dunne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Spiritual life |
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