Light from the east
Subtitle: how the science of medieval Islam helped to shape the western world
By: John Freely
Publisher: I.B. Tauris; Distributed in the United States and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781848854529
Subjects: Islamic influences; Islam and science; Western Civilization; Science and civilization; Science; History
Description: The story of how the science of medieval Islam preserved and enhanced the knowledge acquired from Greece, Mesopotamia, India, and China during Europe's Dark Ages, and how that knowledge later influenced Western thinkers and contributed to the Renaissance.