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The ornament of the world: how Muslims, Jews, and Christians created a culture of tolerance in medieval Spain
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as…
Science in Medieval Islam: an illustrated introduction
Explores Islamic accomplishments in cosmology, mathematics, astronomy, astrology, geography, medicine, natural sciences, alchemy, and optics.
The heirs of Muhammad: Islam's first century and the origins of the Sunni-Shia split
[In this book, the author] recounts the lives of the handful of individuals - the first four Caliphs, the Prophet's widows and the conquering generals - who led and influenced Islam after the death of Muhammad. Within this fifty-year span of conquest…
