Light from the East

John Freely (1926-2017) is the bestselling author of many books on Greek and Arab history, including The Grand Turk, Storm on Horseback, Children of Achilles and Celestial Revolutionary.

Prologue. The Scriptorium at the Süleymaniye

Chapter 1. Science Before Science, Mesopotamia and Egypt
Chapter 2. The Land of the Greeks
Chapter 3. The Roads to Baghdad
Chapter 4. ‘Abbasid Baghdad: The House of Wisdom
Chapter 5. Spiritual Physick
Chapter 6. From Baghdad to Central Asia
Chapter 7. The Cure of Ignorance
Chapter 8. Fatimid Cairo: The Science of Light
Chapter 9. Ayyubid and Mamluk Cairo: Healing Body and Soul
Chapter 10. Ingenious Mechanical Devices
Chapter 11. Islamic Technology
Chapter 12. Al-Andalus: Muslim Spain
Chapter 13. From the Maghrib to the Two Sicilies: Arabic into Latin
Chapter 14. Incoherent Philosophers
Chapter 15. Mongol Maragha and Samarkand: Spheres Within Spheres
Chapter 16. Arabic Science and the European Renaissance
Chapter 17. Copernicus and His Arabic Predecessors
Chapter 18. The Scientific Revolution
Chapter 19. The Heritage of Islamic Science

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