Description
Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness. Jim al- Khalili, a leading British-Iraqi physicist, resurrects this lost chapter of history, and given current East-West tensions, his book could not be timelier. With transporting detail, al-Khalili places readers in the hothouses of the Arabic Enlightenment, shows how they led to Europe's cultural awakening, and poses the question: Why did the Islamic world enter its own dark age after such a dazzling flowering?
Author: Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 03/27/2012
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.50w x 0.93d
ISBN13: 9780143120568
ISBN10: 0143120565
BISAC Categories:
- Science | History
- History | Europe | Medieval
- History | Middle East | General
About the Author
Jim al-Khalili is a leading theoretical nuclear physicist, a trustee of the British Science Association, and a senior advisor to the British Council on science and technology. He has written a number of popular science books, which have been translated into thirteen languages so far.