The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781596914599 (1596914599)
Publish date: December 23rd 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
I've had my eye out for a good book about the Golden Age of Islamic science for some time now. The prior leading candidate, Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists, is said to be good but I flipped through it once and it didn't totally grab me. This one gets a...