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Aristotle's Children: How Muslims, Christians, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20040401
Author:Tanner, Lou

Aristotle's Children: How Muslims, Christians, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages, by Richard Rubenstein. Harcourt, October 2003. $27

Rubenstein, who has written widely in the fields of history and religion, has given us a timely book. In an era when one hears daily of bloodshed in the Middle East, the author reminds us of a time when the three Abrahamic faiths not only coexisted but engaged in an intellectual dialogue that has enriched us all. The ancient wisdom was that of Aristotle, preserved and then transmitted by Arab and Jewish scholars in Muslim Spain ...

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