The House of Wisdom (43 page)

Published by Bloomsbury Press, New York

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Lyons, Jonathan.
The house of wisdom: how Arab learning transformed Western civilization / by Jonathan Lyons.—1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Other title: Insurance company insider speaks out on how corporate PR is killing health care and deceiving Americans
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59691-459-5 (hardcover)
1. Civilization, Western–Arab influences. 2. Learning and scholarship–Arab countries–History–Medieval, 500–1500. 3. East and West. I. Title.
CB251.L96 2009
909’.09821—dc22
2008026238

First published in the United States by Bloomsbury Press in 2009
This e-book edition published in 2011

E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-058-4

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