Books by John Freely
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English
review 1: The first third of this book told how the Arabs and other mid-eastern people translated, preserved and expanded Greek Scientific texts. Most of the rest of the book is an encyclopeidic compilation of the achievements of rennaisance science, a little odry and formulaic. The las...
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English
review 1: This book was a huge disappointment.It was simply a comprehensive history of science which happened to include the Islamic world, the author made no analyses concerning how/why the Arab world held on to the knowledge and simply presented it in a linear fashion.Despite that, this ...
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English
review 1: first time i read about mehmet II about 7 years ago. i was read the book which published by local and moeslim author. when i read this book esp for one till fourth chapter i am totally disagree. This book give me different perception about Mehmet II, that's why i search everythin...