The Caliph's Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad by Benson Bobrick

The Caliph's Splendor: Islam and the West in the Golden Age of Baghdad

Benson Bobrick

304 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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This fascinating, little-known story reveals how Islam influenced Western medicine, science, and philosophy during the "Dark Age" of the West at the time of Harun al-Rashid, the caliph of The Thousand and One Nights. The Caliph's Splendor is a rev...

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