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The Genius of their Age: Ibn Sina, Biruni, and the Lost Enlightenment Hardcover – October 24, 2023

by S. Frederick Starr (Author)
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A vibrant portrait of an age when Arabic enlightenment anticipated and inspired the European Renaissance, illuminated by its guiding figures and rivals, Ibn Sina and Biruni.

In The Genius of their Age, S. Frederick Starr follows up his acclaimed Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age with a portrait of the Arab enlightenment and its key figures--Abu-Ali al-Husayn ibn-'Abdallah Ibn-Sina and Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni. A thousand years ago, these two intellectual giants--known as Ibn Sina and Biruni for short--achieved stunning breakthroughs in fields as diverse as medicine, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, geography, and physics. Biruni measured the earth more precisely than anyone else down to the sixteenth century, pondered a heliocentric universe, and hypothesized the existence of North and South America as inhabited continents. Ibn Sina's writing on philosophy and metaphysics enriched the writings of countless European thinkers, including St. Thomas Aquinas, while Sina's grand synthesis of medical knowledge became the standard for the next six hundred years in Europe, the Middle East, and India. They both also commented extensively on the works of ancient Greeks and earlier Muslim thinkers, whose works they aspired to synthesize--and to transcend.

Contemporaries, Ibn Sina and Biruni were born within the borders of what is now Uzbekistan and spent their lives in Central Asia. They also became rivals, launching a correspondence and commentary that galvanized them despite sometimes bitter disagreement. Centuries before the West caught up with them, Ibn Sina and Biruni reflected their age's feats and its intellectual high point, persisting with their inquiries and their independence amid turmoil and rapid change.

Though scholars have long dissected the works of Ibn Sina and Biruni, S. Frederick Starr focuses also on their lives and the times in which they lived. By contextualizing their work and by making the age palpable to the reader, S. Frederick Starr gives the achievements of Ibn Sina and Biruni a holistic and unforgettably human dimension.
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    Oxford University Press
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    October 24, 2023
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    6.43 x 1.17 x 9.33 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0197675557
  7. ISBN-13
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"Such an important and useful book to introduce two of the world's greatest scholars to a wider audience. Fred Starr's delightful work explains the ground-breaking work of Ibn Sina and al-Biruni - and sets their achievements in their rightful, proper context." -- Peter Frankopan, author of The Earth Transformed: An Untold History and The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

"Ibn Sina and Biruni, two of the greatest minds of the Middle Ages, have found the ideal person in Frederick Starr to present their intertwining lives and thought to a modern, global readership. Intimately familiar with the medieval Persianate context, widely read in the scholarly literature, and remarkably proficient in his exposition of complex philosophical ideas, Starr has produced a consummate work of historical synthesis that should help introduce these intellectual giants to a new audience." -- Fitzroy Morrissey, All Souls College, Oxford, author of A Short History of Islamic Thought

"[Starr] illuminates the richness of thought that characterized this "lost Enlightenment"." -- The New Yorker

About the Author

S. Frederick Starr is Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the American Foreign Policy Council. Beginning his career in archaeology in Turkey, he went on to serve as founding chairman of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at The Wilson Center, vice-president of Tulane University, and president of Oberlin College and the Aspen Institute. His two dozen books and hundreds of other writings focus on the interaction of culture and politics and cover fields as diverse as architecture, diplomacy, history, political science, and music. His pioneering Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age sparked worldwide interest in the achievements of Central Asian civilization during its greatest era.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press (October 24, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 312 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197675557
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197675557
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.95 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.43 x 1.17 x 9.33 inches
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A contrast of two personalities both worthy of study but one on whom the fortune of renoun smiled and anoth.er who lived in obscurity until recently. I enjoyed reading this book and recommended it to people who ordered it on the spot. I am sure many more will enjoy reading the book.
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