{"product_id":"9780143120568","title":"The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47014508921072,"sku":"9780143120568","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143120568_p0.jpg?v=1763656877","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143120568","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}