Genius of Arab Civilization 2/e: Source of Renaissance

by John R. Hayes

International authorities survey the achievements of Islamic culture in major fields of endeavor and its contributions to the European Renaissance and the modern world

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Middle East

260 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1975

About the author

John R. Hayes has been a book and magazine writer and editor, an illustrator, a teacher, and a public relations executive with a number of international oil companies.

Reviews

[خالد آل كمال · Rating 5 out of 5]

how the small tribe into which the prophet Mohammed was born provided the inspiration and political vision and the supple expressiveness of the Arabic language to create a new world out of the older Greek, Roman and Persian civilizations. Most surviving works of Greek philosophers were translated into Arabic in such centers as Dar Al-Hikma(House of Wisdom-mid-ninth century, Baghdad), and many of these works found their way to Latin Europe via the Arabs. But this is far from the whole story. The fourteen contributors to this book show the unique Arab synthesis of older sources (including the Indian and Chinese) in such fields as philosophy, medicine, physics and poetry

[Nathan Baker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent overview of advances made during the Arab Medieval period.

[Emily]

This is out of print but if you can find a copy it's well worth the hunt.