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The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
For centuries following the fall of Rome, western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a…
God and Logic in Islam: The Caliphate of Reason
"This book investigates the central role of reason in Islamic intellectual life. Despite widespread characterization of Islam as a system of belief based only on revelation, John Walbridge argues that rational methods, not fundamentalism, have…
Sacred Calligraphy of the East
"Throughout the East, writing is held to be a gift from the gods, and the divinely inspired letters and characters are objects of the highest veneration. The religious significance of calligraphy has thus led to a unique development of the art of…
Renaissance Magic and the Return of the Golden Age: : the occult Tradition and Marlowe, Jonson, and Shakespeare
Studies Renaissance occultism and discusses how it influenced the work of popular artists and writers from the Renaissance, including Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.
