The House of Wisdom - by Jim Al-Khalili (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Al-Khalili presents a myth-shattering view of the medieval Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations, which preceded--and enabled--the European Renaissance.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b> A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. </b><p>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?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jim al-Khalili</b> is a leading theoretical nuclear physicist, a trustee of the British Science Association, and a senior advisor to the British Council on science and technology. He has written a number of popular science books, which have been translated into thirteen languages so far.
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