The House of Wisdom

How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili

Publisher: Penguin Press in New York

Written in English

Published: 2012 Pages: 336 Downloads: 227

Subjects:

Methodology,
Renaissance Science,
Intellectual life,
Science,
Philosophy,
Medieval Science,
History

About the Edition

"A myth-shattering view of the medieval Islamic world"s myriad scientific innovations, which preceded-and enabled-the European Renaissance. The Arabic legacy of science and philosophy has long been hidden from the West. British-Iraqi physicist Jim Al-Khalili unveils that legacy to fascinating effect by returning to its roots in the hubs of Arab innovation that would advance science and jump-start the European Renaissance. Inspired by the Koranic injunction to study closely all of God"s works, rulers throughout the Islamic world funded armies of scholars who gathered and translated Persian, Sanskrit, and Greek texts. From the ninth through the fourteenth centuries, these scholars built upon those foundations a scientific revolution that bridged the one-thousand-year gap between the ancient Greeks and the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science were actually the result of Arab ingenuity: Astronomers laid the foundations for the heliocentric model of the solar system long before Copernicus; physicians accurately described blood circulation and the inner workings of the eye ages before Europeans solved those mysteries; physicists made discoveries that laid the foundation for Newton"s theories of optics. But the most significant legacy of Middle Eastern science was its evidence-based approach-the lack of which kept Europeans in the dark throughout the Dark Ages. The father of this experimental approach to science-what we call the scientific method-was an Iraqi physicist who applied it centuries before Europeans first dabbled in it. Al-Khalili details not only how discoveries like these were made, but also how they changed European minds and how they were ultimately obscured by later Western versions of the same principles. With transporting detail, Al-Khalili places the reader in the intellectual and cultural hothouses of the Arab Enlightenment: the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, one of the world"s greatest academies, the holy city of Isfahan, the melting pots of Damascus and Cairo, and the embattled Islamic outposts of Spain. Al-Khalili tackles two tantalizing questions: Why did the Arab world enter its own Dark Age after such a dazzling enlightenment? And how much did Arabic learning contribute to making the Western world as we know it? Given his singular combination of expertise in both the Western and Middle Eastern scientific traditions, Al-Khalili is uniquely qualified to solve those riddles"--Provided by publisher.

Edition Notes

Classifications
Statement	Jim Al-Khalili
LC Classifications	Q127.A5 A4 2011
The Physical Object
Format	Paperback
Pagination	xv, 336 p. :
Number of Pages	336
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL24882035M
ISBN 10	0143120565
ISBN 10	978-0143120568
LC Control Number	2010053136
OCLC/WorldCa	635459560

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Oct 25, · The house of wisdom was an amazing book that made me see the Islam world differently. They give a different perspective to the crusades in which they do not highlight the violence but rather the achievements of the Islamic world at that time period.

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The House of Wisdom does not posit to argue to the contrary as some reviewers would have us believe. The book is about, and perhaps sometimes incompletely, the influence of Arab and Muslim (not always the same people) thought, discovery and invention on the West prior to the Renaissance.

Jan 01, · Adding to the list of names among the greatest libraries of the past, the Bayt al-Hikmah (translated as ‘The House of Wisdom’) was established in Baghdad, the capital of the Abbasid Empire, around the 8th century by Caliph Harun al-Rashid (reign from CE) during the time of Author: Ancient-Origins.

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Written by Hariri, shows a library in Baghdad. In the House of Wisdom, translators, scientists, scribes, authors, men of letters, writers, authors, copyists and others used to meet every day for translation, reading, writing, scribing, discourse, dialogue and discussion.

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In its relation to man, Wisdom is the perfection of knowledge of the righteous as a gift. The heyday of Baghdad was 1, years ago when it was the thriving capital of the Muslim world.

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The Western “recovery” of classical learning, as championed later in the Renaissance, was actually first transmitted by these early Arab giants of learning, many of whom emerged from the Baghdad think tank, translation bureau and book repository called the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma), built by Caliph al-Mansur in the eighth century.

About The House of Wisdom. and given current East-West tensions, his book could not be timelier. With transporting detail, al-Khalili places readers in the hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment, shows how they led to Europe’s cultural awakening, and poses the question: Why did the Islamic world enter its own dark age after such a dazzling.

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The only small blemish in this fine book is that Lyons has printed a beautiful page of al-Biruni's Arabic treatise on.