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008			080612s2009 nyuabf b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2008026238
020			_a9781596914599 (hardcover)
035			_a(AE-DuAU)229029067
040			_aDLC _beng _cDLC _dAE-DuAU
041			_aeng
049			_aTSAUD
050	0	0	_aCB251.L96 2009
090			_aCB 251 .L96 2009
100	1		_aLyons, Jonathan. _9153462 _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe house of wisdom : _bhow the Arabs transformed Western civilization / _cby Jonathan Lyons.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
264			_aNew York : _bBloomsbury Press, _c2009
300			_axvii, 248 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
500			_aCol. maps on endpapers.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aFor centuries following the fall of Rome, western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a glimpse of the scientific advances coming from Baghdad, Antioch, or the cities of Persia, Central Asia, and Muslim Spain. T here, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge and revitalizing the works of Plato and Aristotle. I n the royal library of Baghdad, known as the House of Wisdom, an army of scholars worked at the behest of the Abbasid caliphs. At a time when the best book collections in Europe held several dozen volumes, the House of Wisdom boasted as many as four hundred thousand. Even while their countrymen waged bloody Crusades against Muslims, a handful of intrepid Christian scholars, thirsty for knowledge, traveled to Arab lands and returned with priceless jewels of science, medicine, and philosophy that laid the foundation for the Renaissance. I n this brilliant, evocative book, Lyons shows just how much "Western" culture owes to the glories of medieval Arab civilization, and reveals the untold story of how Europe drank from the well of Muslim learning.
650		0	_aCivilization, Western _xArab influences. _9153463
650		0	_aLearning and scholarship _zArab countries _xHistory _yMedieval, 500-1500. _9153464
650		0	_aEast and West. _9153465
942			_cBOOK _2lcc
999			_c39549 _d39549