The house of wisdom how the Arabs transformed Western civilization
Record details
- ISBN: 9781608191901 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1608191907 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xvii, 248 p., [8] p. of plates) : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps. - Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Col. maps on endpapers. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-235) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Warriors of God -- The Earth is like a wheel -- The house of wisdom -- Mapping the World -- The first man of science -- "What is said of the sphere ..." -- "The wisest philosophers of the World" -- On the eternity of the World -- The invention of the West. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Civilization, Western -- Arab influences Learning and scholarship -- Arab countries -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500 East and West |
Genre: | Electronic books. |