The House of Wisdom
How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
Jim Al-Khalili 2011 Penguin 509.1749 ALK Beav.Lib.
Good introduction to Islamic scientific development, 800 to 1500 AD. I read only parts of the book, no time.
Author born in Baghdad, left for Britain (mother) in 1979.
- p20 Muhammad: b570, revelation 610, hijra 622, death 632
- p23 Yarmuk 626 Khalid defeats Byzantines p24 Uymayyads 661-750, Abbasid to 1250
- Al-Ma'mun, Persian tutor Ja'far, patron of House of Wisdom (approx 820 to xxx) and Mu'tazilites rationalists
- Al Kindi, approx 800 to 873