The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization

ISBN-13: 9781408801215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str.

Jonathan Lyons

Opis

Jonathan Lyons restores credit to the Arab thinkers of the past, explores the extent of their learning and describes the intrepid adventures of those who went in search of it and, in doing so, laid the foundations of what we now call the Renaissance.

Recenzje

'A wonderful and important book which for the first time presents the Western debt to medieval Arabic learning in a clear, accessible manner. From the azimuth to the zenith, from algebra to the zero, so much of what the West takes for granted came to us from the Arab world . . . A fascinating book' William Dalrymple

O autorze

Jonathan Lyons is the author of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (Bloomsbury Press 2009). He served as editor and foreign correspondent for Reuters for more than twenty years. He holds a doctorate in sociology and has taught at George Mason University, Georgetown University, and Monash University in Australia. He lives in Portland, Oregon.