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The house of wisdom : how the Arabs transformed Western civilization /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lyons, Jonathan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New Delhi : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
Edition:Paperback ed.
Subjects:
Civilization, Western > Arab influences.
Learning and scholarship > Arab countries > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Batı uygarlığı > Arap etkisi.
Alimlik > Arap ülkeleri > Tarih > Ortaçağ, 500-1500.
Doğu ve Batı.
East and West
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : al-Maghrib/sunset
  • al-Isha/nightfall
  • The warriors of God
  • The earth is like a wheel
  • al-Fajr/dawn
  • The house of wisdom
  • Mapping the world
  • al-Zuhr/midday
  • The first man of science
  • "What is said of the sphere ..."
  • "The wisest philosophers of the world"
  • al-Asr/afternoon
  • On the eternity of the world
  • The invention of the West
  • Acknowledgments.

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