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light from the east: how the science of medieval islam helped to shape the western world
[Paperback - 2015]
john freely
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Category: History
Sub-category: Islamic History
Additional Category: European History - Medieval History - Popular Science
Publisher: I.b.tauris Uk | ISBN: 9781784531386 | Pages: 0
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Long before the European Renaissance, while the western world was languishing in what was once called the 'Dark Ages', the Arab world was ablaze with the creativity of its Golden Age. This is the story of how Islamic science, which began in eighth-century Baghdad, enhanced the knowledge acquired from Greece, Mesopotamia, India and China. Through the astrologers, physicians, philosophers, mathematicians and alchemists of the Muslim world, this knowledge influenced western thinkers from Thomas Aquinas and Copernicus and helped inspire the Renaissance and give birth to modern science.

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