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House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization | Jonathan Lyons
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The remarkable story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy and of the itinerant Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West. For centuries following the fall of Rome, western Europe (…more)
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An interesting look at the debt the West owes to the Arab thinkers from the eighth through thirteenth centuries. The “rediscovery” of Greek science and philosophy in the Middle Ages came courtesy of the Islamic world, and this book details how that happened.

It skips around a bit chronologically, and can be a bit confusing (luckily it dovetails some with A History of God by Armstrong, which I read recently, so that helped)

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ravenlee but it‘s very interesting. Gives me a nice supplement to our homeschool medieval history studies. 5y
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