{"product_id":"the-house-of-wisdom-isbn-9780143120568","title":"The House of Wisdom","description":"\u003cb\u003eA myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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?\u003cb\u003eJim al-Khalili\u003c\/b\u003e is a leading theoretical nuclear physicist, a  trustee of the British Science Association, and a senior advisor to the  British Council on science and technology. He has written a number of  popular science books, which have been translated into thirteen  languages so far.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302531846373,"sku":"NP9780143120568","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143120568.jpg?v=1767739846","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-house-of-wisdom-isbn-9780143120568","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}