The House of Wisdom, (Paperback)

from MarthaJeanne

Very interesting material, but the author protests too much. He spends at least as much time arguing about the relative values of western and arabic discoveries as he does telling us about the discoveries themselves.

from bell7

In the overall survey view of history and science that many of us get in school, not much happens as far as scientific advancement between the Greek philosophers and the Renaissance. In this book, Jim Al-Khalili makes the case for the forgotten scientists of the Arabic-speaking world, including b...

from MarkHurn

An interesting book which rests on the authors special position an english trained physics professor who went to school in Iraq. Al-Khalili states the case for arabic science in the 8th-14th centuries (CE) by biographical sketches of the scholars involved. The term arabic rather than islamic is u...