Jonathan Lyons (1)
Forfatter af The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
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Jonathan Lyons served as editor and foreign correspondentmostly in the Muslim worldfor Reuters for more than twenty years. He is now affiliated with the Global Terrorism Research Center and is a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology of religion, both at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He vis mere lives in Washington, D.C. vis mindre
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This part of the world of course was guided by Islam, yet the influence did not seem to curtail the progress of these early innovators in the same way. The reach of their knowledge was vast and advanced world progress starting with something as simple as the numeral system we incorporate to this day.
The story of this rather amazing history is presented in a chronologic way that ties in with western culture and led to the liberation of thought from the religious constraints, no easy task.… (mere)