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Mon 02 Feb 2009Timely reminder of how Islamic culture helped Europe out of Dark Ages
BOOK OF THE DAY: The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western CivilizationBy Jonathan Lyons Bloomsbury 248pp, £20
THE TIMING is apt: now that Barack Obama’s America seeks conciliation rather than confrontation in the Middle East, here is a thoughtful book revealing how Islamic culture helped the West to emerge from the Dark Ages into the Renaissance.
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