The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization Hadiths Sahih Muslim ISBN-13:‎ 978-0827235373

ISBN-13:‎ 978-0827235373

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The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization Hadiths Sahih Muslim ISBN-13:‎ 978-0827235373For 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 visit cities like Baghdad or Antioch. There, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge, as well as keeping alive the works of Plato and Aristotle. When the best