The House of Wisdom
How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
(Sprache: Englisch)
The fascinating story of how an English scholar brought Arab learning to the West and rescued it from the Dark Ages
The fascinating story of how an English scholar brought Arab learning to the West and rescued it from the Dark Ages
The fascinating story of how an English scholar brought Arab learning to the West and rescued it from the Dark Ages
Leider schon ausverkauft
versandkostenfrei
Buch
17.90 €
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „The House of Wisdom “
The fascinating story of how an English scholar brought Arab learning to the West and rescued it from the Dark Ages
The fascinating story of how an English scholar brought Arab learning to the West and rescued it from the Dark Ages
The fascinating story of how an English scholar brought Arab learning to the West and rescued it from the Dark Ages
Klappentext zu „The House of Wisdom “
For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was backward and benighted, locked into the Dark Ages and barely able to tell the time of day. Augustine had decreed that belief, not reason, should be the guiding light of Christian thinking and partially as a result Europeans lived in a world of nominal literacy and subsistence farming, where blind faith, superstition and sorcery took the place of medicine, and the church harnessed nascent aggression among the kingdoms to its own ends in the pursuit of astonishingly violent and cruel holy wars - the Crusades.Arab culture, however, was thriving, and had become a powerhouse of intellectual exploration and discussion that dazzled the likes of Adelard of Bath who ventured to the Near East in search of the scientific riches pouring out of cities like Antioch or Baghdad, whose House of Wisdom held four hundred thousand books at a time when the best European libraries housed, at most, several dozen. The Arabs could measure theearth's circumference, a feat not matched in the West for eight hundred years; they discovered algebra; were adept at astronomy and navigation, developed the astrolabe, translated all the Greek scientific and philosophical texts including, importantly, those of Aristotle; they made paper lenses and mirrors. Without them, and the knowledge that travellers like Adelard brought back to the West, Europe would in all likelihood have been a very different place over the last millennium.
In this fascinating and thoughtful book Jonathan Lyons restores credit to the Arab thinkers of the past, explores and reveals the extent of their learning and describes the intrepid adventures of those who went in search of it and who, in doing so, laid the foundations of what we now call the Renaissance.
Autoren-Porträt von Jonathan Lyons
Lyons, JonathanJonathan Lyons is the author of The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (Bloomsbury Press 2009). He served as editor and foreign correspondent for Reuters for more than twenty years. He holds a doctorate in sociology and has taught at George Mason University, Georgetown University, and Monash University in Australia. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jonathan Lyons
- 2009, 272 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Trade
- ISBN-10: 1408800314
- ISBN-13: 9781408800317
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The House of Wisdom “
'A wonderful and important book which for the first time presents the Western debt to medieval Arabic learning in a clear, accessible manner. From the azimuth to the zenith, from algebra to the zero, so much of what the West takes for granted came to us from the Arab world ... A fascinating book' William Dalrymple
Kommentar zu "The House of Wisdom"
0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „The House of Wisdom“
Zustand | Preis | Porto | Zahlung | Verkäufer | Rating |
---|
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "The House of Wisdom".
Kommentar verfassen