The House of Wisdom

  • The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    By Jonathan Lyons

    I n this brilliant, evocative book, Lyons shows just how much "Western" culture owes to the glories of medieval Arab civilization, and reveals the untold story of how Europe drank from the well of Muslim learning.

  • The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
    By Jonathan Lyons

    Jacques Le Goff, Intellectuals in the Middle Ages, trans. Teresa Lavender Fagan (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1993), 16. 36. Robert of Ketton, quoted in Kritzeck, Peter the Venerable, 62. 37. Pym, Negotiating the Frontier, 52. 38.

  • The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
    The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
    By Jim Al-Khalili

    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.

  • The House of Wisdom
    The House of Wisdom
    By Florence Parry Heide, Judith Heide Gilliland

    This is the true story of Ishaq, a young boy in ninth-century Baghdad. And it is the story of the House of Wisdom. More than a house, more than a...

  • The House of Wisdom
    By Mary GrandPré, Florence Parry Heide, Judith Heide Gilliland

    Ishaq, the son of the chief translator to the Caliph of ancient Baghdad, travels the world in search of precious books and manuscripts and brings them back to the great library known as the House of Wisdom.

  • The House of Wisdom: A Pilgrimage of the Heart
    The House of Wisdom: A Pilgrimage of the Heart
    By John S. Dunne

    The House of Wisdom: A Pilgrimage of the Heart

  • The House of Wisdom: Level 11
    The House of Wisdom: Level 11
    By Subhi Zora

    Collins Big Cat Arabic Reading Programme is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins.