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  A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

  Jonathan Lyons served as editor and foreign correspondent—mostly in the Muslim world—for Reuters for more than twenty years. He is now a researcher at the Global Terrorism Research Center and a Ph.D. candidate in the sociology of religion, both at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.

  Copyright © 2009 by Jonathan Lyons

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  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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