# The House of Wisdom

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- Book: [The House of Wisdom](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-al-khalili/the-house-of-wisdom) ([The House of Wisdom.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-al-khalili/the-house-of-wisdom.md))
- Authors: [Jim Al-Khalili](https://www.bookquiver.com/jim-al-khalili)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4312-056-8
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2012-03-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western...