{"product_id":"the-house-of-wisdom-how-the-arabs-transformed-western-civilization","title":"The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe remarkable story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophyand of the itinerant Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West.  For centuries following the fall of Rome  western Europe was a benighted backwater  a world of subsistence farming  minimal literacy  and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving  dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a glimpse of the scientific advances coming from Baghdad  Antioch  or the cities of Persia  Central Asia  and Muslim Spain. T here  philosophers  mathematicians  and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge and revitalizing the works of Plato and Aristotle. I n the royal library of Baghdad  known as the House of Wisdom  an army of scholars worked at the behest of the Abbasid caliphs. At a time when the best book collections in Europe held several dozen volumes  the House of Wisdom boasted as many as four hundred thousand.  Even while their countrymen waged bloody Crusades against Muslims  a handful of intrepid Christian scholars  thirsty for knowledge  traveled to Arab lands and returned with priceless jewels of science  medicine  and philosophy that laid the foundation for the Renaissance. I n this brilliant  evocative book  Lyons shows just how much \"Western\" culture owes to the glories of medieval Arab civilization  and reveals the untold story of how Europe drank from the well of Muslim learning.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945860722741,"sku":"ByrdShop_1596914599","price":52.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781596914599.jpg?v=1769912192","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-house-of-wisdom-how-the-arabs-transformed-western-civilization","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}