The House of Wisdom - How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the RenaissanceA myth shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness. Jim al Khalili, a leading British Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history, and given current East

the reader is given a vivid insight into the lives of the early Muslims and how extraordinary they were

Illustrator: Raabia Haque

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The book starts by explaining what is meant by rebellion

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Print length: 280 pages

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and ideas about purity and impurity

Publication Dates: January 11

While this book chronologically follows X: A Novel

Publisher: NYU Press

Language: English and Arabic