Excerpts from The House of Wisdom:"How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization". Book recommended by Juan Cole. More excerpts about the spread to the west here. A review by James Buchan Invaders of the mind. Excerpt from the review:
"Why Muslim science and medicine remained in their medieval state in certain regions well into our lifetimes belongs to another book. For all Lyons's wonder and admiration, the falasifa were always out of the mainstream of Muslim thought; they are best understood as a sort of sect, like the Shia, and were just as vulnerable to charges of heresy."
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