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

Author: Lyons, Jonathan.

Edition Statement:1st U.S. ed.

Imprint:New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

Descriptionxvii, 248 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.

Note:Col. maps on endpapers.

Note:Prologue: Al-Maghrib/Sunset -- pt. I. Al-Isha/Nightfall -- 1. The Warriors of God -- 2. The Earth Is Like a Wheel -- pt. II. Al-Fajr/Dawn -- 3. The House of Wisdom -- 4. Mapping the World -- pt. III. Al-Zuhr/Midday -- 5. The First Man of Science -- 6. "What Is Said of the Sphere ..." -- 7. "The Wisest Philosophers of the World" -- pt. IV. Al-Asr/ Afternoon -- 8. On the Eternity of the World -- 9. The Invention of the West.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-235) and index.

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