SECULAR HUB BOOK CLUB

-- About the Secular Hub Book Club --

Every month, except August and December, we pick a nonfiction book to read and discuss. We meet face-to-face on the second Sunday of the month at 1pm to share and learn from each other.

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June 8, 2025

The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge by Jim Al-Khaliki

A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Western science had their roots in the Arab world of the middle ages, a period when much of Western Christendom lay in intellectual darkness.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10379376-the-house-of-wisdom?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=WgJMV3BfN3&rank=2

Thanks, Paul