Book ID: CBB001250263

The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (2009)

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Lyons, Jonathan (Author)


Bloomsbury Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: xvii + 248 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

Reviewed By

Review Fancy, Nahyan (2012) Review of "The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization". History: Reviews of New Books (pp. 60-61). unapi

Essay Review Cohen, H. Floris (2012) From West to East, from East to West? Early Science between Civilizations. Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period (pp. 339-350). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Violet Moller
Roberts, Alexandre M.
Shi Yunli Zhu Haohao
McVaugh, Michael Rogers
Yücesoy, Hayrettin
Yousefi, Najm al-Din
Journals
Journal of World History
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Iranian Studies
Die Welt des Islams
Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Publishers
SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo
Pennsylvania State University Press
I. B. Tauris
Franz Steiner Verlag
Brill
Anchor
Concepts
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Transmission of ideas
Transmission of texts
Translations
Medicine
People
Galen
al-Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyā
al-Kindī, Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqub ibn Isḥāq
Sa'id ibn Ahmad, al-Andalusi
Rashid al-Din Tabid
Ptolemy
Time Periods
Medieval
14th century
12th century
8th century
Early modern
9th century
Places
China
Persia (Iran)
Salerno (Italy)
Córdoba (Spain)
Toledo (Spain)
Baghdad (Iraq)
Institutions
Université de Montpellier
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