{"product_id":"the-persian-mind-how-ancient-iran-shaped-islamic-science-philosophy-and-empire-9798198830929","title":"The Persian Mind: How Ancient Iran Shaped Islamic Science, Philosophy, and Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Clayton Louis Turnage\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Renaissance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor centuries, the story of the Renaissance has been told as if Europe woke up by itself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut before Florence, before Copernicus, before Renaissance medicine, before European algebra, and before the West began calling itself modern, another civilization had already been gathering, testing, translating, and transforming the knowledge of the ancient world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of that civilization stood Persia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Persian Mind\u003c\/b\u003e reveals how ancient Iran and the wider Persianate world helped shape the Islamic Golden Age - the very intellectual world that later helped awaken Europe. After the Arab conquest, the Sasanian Empire fell, but Persian civilization did not vanish. Its scribes, administrators, physicians, philosophers, poets, patrons, and scholars entered the bloodstream of Islamic civilization and helped turn conquest into culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the eastern power of Khurasan to the Abbasid court of Baghdad, from the Barmakid viziers to the Persian scribes who made empire durable, this book uncovers the hidden Persian layer beneath the Golden Age. It follows the minds who transformed world history: \u003cb\u003eal-Khwarizmi\u003c\/b\u003e, whose mathematics helped give us algebra and algorithms; \u003cb\u003eal-Razi\u003c\/b\u003e, whose clinical medicine challenged blind obedience to ancient authority; \u003cb\u003eAvicenna\u003c\/b\u003e, whose medical and philosophical systems shaped both Islam and Europe; and \u003cb\u003eal-Biruni\u003c\/b\u003e, whose measurements and comparative studies made him one of the most expansive scholars of the medieval world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not the familiar story of Europe inventing genius in isolation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the deeper story of the civilization Europe inherited before it called itself reborn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBold, accessible, and richly argued, \u003cb\u003eThe Persian Mind\u003c\/b\u003e restores Persia to its rightful place inside the history of science, medicine, philosophy, mathematics, and Western civilization itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Renaissance did not begin from nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt began downstream from Persia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47890041274519,"sku":"9798198830929","price":914.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798198830929.webp?v=1781178626","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-persian-mind-how-ancient-iran-shaped-islamic-science-philosophy-and-empire-9798198830929","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}